MISO maintains that a member request to create a multiday gas purchase requirement for use during extreme cold is unnecessary but offered financial assurances for resources whose commitments are canceled.

New England Power Pool stakeholders are discussing potential changes to ISO-NE wholesale energy markets to improve winter fuel security.

MISO’s market planners outlined a potential 30-minute reserve product to reduce uplift and multiday generator commitments to cut production costs.

MISO and its members have selected eight market-improvement projects from its annual Market Roadmap to focus on in 2018.

MISO’s preliminary analysis of implementing multi-day unit commitments shows the project may be worthwhile.

MISO is testing the waters for creating a multiday energy market that would keep generators with long start-up times switched on for more than one day.