MISO stakeholders this week pushed MISO to publish sooner rather than later a new deadline for accepting aggregators of distributed resources into its markets.
MISO hopes to file for a new implementation date and clear up other aspects of its Order 2222 compliance with FERC by May 10. While the RTO plans to discuss several aspects of its revamped compliance multiple times between now and early spring, it plans to devote only one final April 11 meeting of its DER Task Force to discussing the new target date. After that, it will present a final, reworked Order 2222 compliance proposal to the MISO Market Subcommittee at its April 18 meeting.
In October, FERC told MISO it had to achieve a more timely Order 2222 compliance, striking down the RTO’s originally proposed plan to accept aggregators’ offers beginning in the first quarter of 2030. (See FERC: MISO’s 2030 Finish Date on Order 2222 Compliance not Soon Enough.)
Clean Grid Alliance’s Rhonda Peters asked MISO not to wait to hold discussions on its new implementation until spring.
“The implementation date is a topic of great importance to many stakeholders,” she said during a Jan. 11 teleconference of MISO’s DER Task Force.
MISO’s Marc Keyser said landing on a new implementation date will be relatively “straightforward” when compared to the other outstanding Order 2222 compliance directives FERC ordered MISO to resolve.
“Multinodal aggregations are a pretty complex topic…we think we’ll need multiple discussions there,” Keyser said.
However, Sierra Club’s Justin Vickers said the implementation date is a “big deal.”
“I think not being able to talk about that until the very end will affect how we will discuss other issues,” he said, adding it would be “prudent” for MISO to share its revised go-live date with stakeholders expeditiously.
Organization of MISO States Executive Director Marcus Hawkins said MISO’s 2030 finish date was revealed belatedly in its first round of compliance work, which led OMS to reassess MISO’s compliance plan. OMS last year filed comments with FERC that a 2030 implementation date was too gradual.
Advanced Energy Management Alliance’s DeWayne Todd asked MISO to consider a staged implementation to the order, where it works in DER aggregators’ participation as it’s able.
Otherwise with the Order 2222 compliance edits, MISO is reaching out to its stakeholders for advice on how it should best coordinate with regulators, distribution companies and aggregators to solve FERC’s directive to establish cybersecurity and customer data privacy protections for meter data management.
The RTO also is seeking stakeholder reactions on how it should set up dispute resolution when disagreements arise between aggregators, LSEs, distribution companies and/or regulators over meter data or settlements. MISO is proposing that it become involved and review an aggregator’s participation in its markets when its settlements are successfully disputed more than 10% of the time by an LSE and the financial impacts of successful disputes exceed $7,500 for an individual dispute or average at least $100,000 across all successful disputes.
MISO will hold two workshops with distribution companies on Order 2222 compliance: a Jan. 22 teleconference to discuss a 60-day timeline and process for reliability reviews to monitor DER aggregations’ impact on the distribution system and a Feb. 27 teleconference to hash out operational coordination.
MISO also plans to discuss how it might handle DER aggregations across multiple pricing nodes at DER Task Force meetings beginning in February.
