MISO Monitor David Patton reported that congestion caused by outages and under-scheduling of wind resources were causes for concern.

A roundup of news from the MISO Board of Directors meeting on Dec. 10, 2015.

The MISO Board of Directors discussed expanding the RTO's headquarters, increasing its 2015 operating budget and complying with the Clean Power Plan.

MISO's Board of Directors voted to switch to a quarterly meeting schedule from its current every-other-month calendar, a change likely to also be adopted by the Advisory Committee.

MISO is cool and collected heading into the winter, staff told the Markets Committee of the Board of Directors.

The MISO board’s Markets Committee met at Potomac Economics headquarters in Fairfax, Va., to review the Market Monitor’s quarterly metrics report and its monitoring procedures.

MISO has a pile of 22 active recommendations made over the years by its Independent Market Monitor, all in various stages of progress. Of 15 past recommendations through the 2013 State of the Market Report, MISO is working to implement six.

A summary of issues the MISO Board of Directors discussed at the MISO Informational Forum last week.

Registered wind capacity in MISO is projected to rise 50% by the end of 2019 — and that’s not even counting more turbines likely to sprout due to the Clean Power Plan.

FERC Commissioner Tony Clark said that the commission has “a sense of urgency” to take action on price formation issues after initiating an inquiry into the subject more than a year ago.