MISO

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator is a regional transmission organization that plans transmission projects, administers wholesale markets for its membership and manages the flow of electricity in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. 
Xcel Energy
Xcel ‘Optimistic’ It Will Handle Tariffs, Trade War
Xcel CEO Bob Frenzel tried to reassure the investment community that the company is better prepared for a trade war and President Trump's tariffs during a first-quarter earnings call.
Xcel Energy
MISO Debuting Flag System to Curb Deviations from Dispatch
MISO said it will debut a new flag system within weeks to give stronger signals to generation owners when their units deviate from their dispatch instructions.
ITC Midwest
Consumer Groups Invoke DOJ Stance in Stalled Complaint on ROFRs in MISO Planning
A collective of consumer groups has invoked a recent letter from the U.S. Department of Justice in an attempt to get FERC to act on its three-year-old complaint against MISO deferring to state right of first refusal laws in regional planning.
MISO
MISO: New Software Effective, Faster than Previous Queue Study Process
MISO concluded that Pearl Street’s SUGAR automation software is an effective alternative to the power flow simulations it used to conduct to identify network upgrades for generation projects in the queue.
MISO and PJM
MISO, PJM Forgo Typical Interregional Studies for Novel Transfer Work
MISO and PJM will not take on customary interregional planning studies this year, deciding they have enough on their plates with a new and in-progress joint transfer study.
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End Users Push MISO for More Intensive Cost Overrun Evals on Tx Projects
MISO’s end-use customers called for more “insight and transparency into” the variance analysis as well as a lower, 10% threshold on cost overruns to trigger the analysis.
McDermott International
DC Circuit Rejects Entergy Attempt to Save MISO Capacity Obligation Rule
An appeals court has denied Entergy’s repeat attempt to revive a 50% minimum capacity obligation rule for MISO’s load-serving entities, concluding Entergy lacked standing.
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MISO: DR to Face More Stringent Testing by 2026 Capacity Auction
MISO said its next capacity auction in spring 2026 will feature more rigorous testing for its demand response that registers to provide capacity.
Potomac Economics
IMM Praises MISO for Fewer Out-of-market Actions
After years of its Independent Market Monitor critiquing MISO for making too many out-of-market actions to tame congestion, the IMM congratulated the RTO for dramatically reducing such actions.
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MISO Discards Interim Participation Option from Order 2222 Plan
MISO announced it will scrap its plan to use an existing DR participation category to get aggregators of DERs participating on a limited basis a few years ahead of a full Order 2222 rollout in 2030.

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