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. 
MISO Limits Storage as Transmission Asset Ownership
MISO shut down the prospect of allowing non-transmission owners to operate storage-as-transmission assets in the RTO’s initial ruleset for the resources.
MISO Puts Fast-track Option on Hold
MISO won't create a special lane in its interconnection queue to accelerate projects that demonstrate readiness for development.
MISO Promises Refile on Stricter Queue Requirements
MISO plans to refile a revised version of a plan to speed up its current 500-day interconnection queue process after FERC rejected its first attempt.
Abundance of Summer Capacity — Except in Texas
ERCOT’s low reserve margin sticks out when compared to those of most other regions in the U.S., where their reserves are well above their reference levels.
RTO Board Members Share Views on Oversight Role
Present and former RTO board members at the Energy Bar Association’s annual meeting quickly seized control, asking questions of each other.
MISO Tames Flows on North-South Transfer Limit
MISO says the new process to better contain flows on its North-South settlement transmission path is working as intended.
MISO Requests Storage Compliance Delay into 2021
MISO plans to have a market participation model for energy storage resources in place by 2021, having filed a request for delay of FERC’s deadline.
MISO to Fix Communications System Shortcomings
MISO want to improve how owners of LMRs interact with a communications system that some think hampered the RTO’s response to a grid emergency this winter.
MISO Ponders Changes After Latest PRA
MISO proposed to change the deadlines and deliverability requirements for next year’s Planning Resource Auction as it released more data from this year.
MISO Reliability Subcommittee Briefs: May 2, 2019
MISO will reconsider its penalty exemption policy for already submitted transmission outages, officials told the Reliability Subcommittee May 2.

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