MISO’s Monitor said the RTO would be better served by an even higher planning reserve margin, two days after it recorded its first emergency of the summer.

MISO’s market platform replacement is $20M over budget as staff navigate the intricacies of replacing a decades-old system and pandemic-related issues.

America’s Power has countered a Union of Concerned Scientists analysis claiming coal plant self-commitments are unnecessarily costing ratepayers millions.

MISO said it continues to weigh changes to its markets and resource adequacy construct as part of its multiyear resource availability and need project.

MISO is ready to begin testing some of the capabilities of its new market platform as the effort to develop the system enters its fourth year.

MISO is looking into a forward market mechanism and improvements to its scarcity and emergency pricing under its resource availability and need project.

The MISO footprint sank deeper into the COVID-19 twilight zone in early April, with demand flattening further and some maintenance outages frozen.

MISO might revise and refile a failed proposal designed to set penalties for non-capacity resources that exercise market power through physical withholding.

MISO predicts energy usage this spring will peak at 100 GW in May, with about 134 GW of total capacity available.

MISO has begun developing the software to create a 30-minute reserve product for use in late 2021.