MISO players weighed the RTO’s recent moves to fortify resource adequacy, including seasonal capacity, accreditation approaches a downward-sloping demand curve.

The results of MISO’s inaugural seasonal capacity auctions, released late Wednesday, showed sufficient supply for the 2023/24 planning year.

MISO will fire up its capacity auction machinery beginning April 18 after it was forced to delay the auction last month on a FERC order.

Two competitive electricity organizations have protested FERC’s show-cause order to MISO that will ultimately downsize resources’ capacity accreditation values.

MISO tried to quell unease over its intended capacity accreditation with a stakeholder workshop to show that its proposal lines up with a new report.

NYISO briefed the Installed Capacity/Market Issues Working Group on its efforts to improve capacity accreditation.

MISO’s attempt to justify a new resource accreditation process gave way to heated debate over how to best alleviate the footprint’s reliability challenges.

FERC rejected SPP’s capacity accreditation methodology for wind and solar resources and granted a rehearing request of its prior approval.

FERC shut down a pair of requests for exemptions from a resource availability cutoff under MISO’s new availability-based accreditation method.

Entergy has asked FERC to exclude some of its power plants from rules contained in MISO’s new availability-based accreditation method.