FERC ruled that WEPCo overcharged ratepayers on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula by almost $23 million under MISO-ordered SSR agreements.

FERC approved MISO’s proposed system support resource agreement for Cleco Power’s Teche 3.

FERC rejected Big Rivers Electric’s request for a waiver to keep MISO interconnection rights for one of its coal plants through late 2017.

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula will get its own utility, two new generating plants and maybe additional transmission following actions by regulators and MISO.

The MISO Planning Advisory Committee discussed making retirement notices public, including energy storage in interconnection rules and charging for Quarterly Operating Limit studies.

MISO has FERC’s permission to end a system support resource agreement in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula effective Nov. 26, 2016.

Energy storage won’t eliminate the need for RMR generators - the need to pay unprofitable generators to continue operating for grid support.

FERC said MISO can continue doling out refunds to Wisconsin utilities, upholding the RTO’s new cost allocation methodology for three system support resource power plants in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

A group of Upper Peninsula electric users in MISO plans to ask FERC to investigate WEPCo. for allegedly falsifying records to increase its revenues under the Presque Isle SSR.

MISO wants to end the White Pine SSR for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, saying the ATC transmission reconfiguration will ensure reliability.