MISO’s Independent Market Monitor has a different opinion of the RTO’s summer supply picture three weeks into the season.

MISO will file with FERC in mid-August a proposal to create a short-term reserve product, staff told the Market Subcommittee.

MISO said it will combine several data sets to create a new and comprehensive multiday operating margin forecast.

MISO proposed a set of changes to buttress its FTR market and said it will convene a new task team to work out the details of the fledging proposal.

MISO says the new process to better contain flows on its North-South settlement transmission path is working as intended.

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 will prototype its proposed short-term reserve product to demonstrate cost and benefits to its members.

MISO foresees a “modest probability” it will declare a systemwide maximum generation event this spring.

MISO revived the idea of implementing a seasonal capacity auction as part of its multipronged resource availability and need initiative, but promised to gather more data before defining long-term solutions.

Stakeholders are urging MISO to slow downits disjointed resource availability and need effort until it can measure the effects of 3 related FERC filings.