Resource Adequacy
Resource adequacy is the ability of electric grid operators to supply enough electricity at the right locations, using current capacity and reserves, to meet demand. It is expressed as the probability of an outage due to insufficient capacity.
With spring season approaching, MISO is encouraging stakeholders to offer ideas to address the growing divide between resource availability and need.
MISO posted draft 2019/20 Planning Resource Auction data that are virtually unchanged from last year’s early predictions.
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FERC's Bernard McNamee informed Democrats that ethics advisers said he was not required to recuse himself from the commission’s resilience inquiry.
Until MISO files changes to implement stricter requirements for planned outage notification, stakeholders offered alternatives softening the proposal.
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ERCOT is preparing to take on the Texas heat again in 2019 with reserve margins that have shrunk even further than last summer's.
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MISO will spend much of 2019 working on how it can prevent the increasingly frequent emergency conditions it experienced in 2018.
ENGIE
FERC voted 2-1 to approve ISO-NE’s cost-of-service agreement with Exelon for its Mystic plant, including payments to the company’s Distrigas LNG facility.
NERC
NERC warned that faster than expected coal and nuclear power plant retirements could jeopardize reliability if grid operators are not prepared.
A report on fuel security in PJM shows the grid is reliable in all but extreme scenarios as long as resources are compensated for being fuel-secure.
MISO discussed what resource availability and need solutions it will focus on next year, including improvements to the Planning Resource Auction.
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