Two environmental groups that say regulated utilities’ practice of self-committing coal plants is costing ratepayers have a point, RTO officials said.

MISO may have to devise new lines of communication, rethink its data management and alter dispatch rules to give DERs access to its markets.

Continuous improvement of MISO’s wind forecasting is more important now that more than 90% of wind farms in the footprint rely on the RTO’s predictions.

FERC dismissed a second round of complaints over overlapping pseudo-tie congestion charges between MISO and PJM.

FERC rejected a pair of complaints from the Louisiana PSC related to a dispute over how Entergy previously allocated production costs among its companies.

MISO renewable proponents want to revamp a transmission planning process they say inhibits the development of generation in the western region.

FERC found that CAISO, ISO-NE and MISO had largely complied with Order 841, but it ordered changes to some of the grid operators’ proposed tariff revisions.

FERC ordered Ameren Illinois to revise its accounting for some expenses but rejected challenges by Southwestern Electric Coop. to the formula rate update.

FERC adopted a new methodology for calculating return on equity rates for transmission owners and applied it to two MISO proceedings.

Environmental advocates are stepping up calls for MISO to split up its Environmental and Other Stakeholder Groups sector to provide a more singular voice.