American Transmission Co. (ATC) has restored one of two underwater circuits in MISO connecting Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with the lower part of the state following a month-long outage for the damaged lines.

The MISO Reliability Subcommittee’s resource availability and need effort could revive a discussion on developing a capacity market divided by season.

The extensive FERC energy storage order (Order 841) has handed the MISO Reliability Subcommittee a new set of to-dos.

MISO’s Energy Storage Task Force will now add to its to-do list storage-related aspects of the recently issued FERC Order 845.

NextEra Energy beat analysts’ expectations and shattered last year’s first-quarter (Q1 2018) performance, reporting earnings Tuesday of $4.4 billion and $9.32/share, up from $1.6 billion and $3.37, respectively.

While MISO says it’s ready for a warmer-than-normal summer, officials cautioned that operators will likely lean on demand response (DR) resources to manage loads during the season.

MISO easily managed what turned out to be a “near-normal” March, the RTO said Tuesday.

Buoyed by recent positive developments, American Electric Power CEO Nick Akins had several reasons Thursday to proclaim the company “in better shape than in the first quarter of last year.”

At the Gulf Coast Power Association’s annual spring conference, ERCOT CEO Bill Magness once again moderated a panel of his counterparts from around the country.

Increased renewable power integration will shift the peak load in MISO to evening hours, with a spikier but shorter daily loss-of-load risk.