February’s winter storm, which threw Texas and much of the Midwest into a deep freeze, remains a hot topic as seen at recent industry conferences.

MISO and the Organization of MISO States said things are looking up in their annual resource adequacy assessment.

The MISO Market Subcommittee meeting ran the gamut of storage participation, discovery of a longstanding energy pricing error and FTR underfunding.

MISO has debuted a compliance plan with stakeholders on how it will bring distributed resource aggregations into its markets pursuant to FERC Order 2222.

MISO is testing a new cost-sharing plan for members that use the regional transfer limit linking its Midwest and South regions.

MISO concluded that its current suite of resource adequacy tools, and the in-progress projects it is working on, enable it to cope with extreme cold snaps.

MISO and SPP state regulators are trying to inventory the instances and costs of duplicate transmission charges along their seams to mitigate rate pancaking.

MISO staff said the footprint is in for more extreme ramping events after a late April drop in wind output. 

MISO's annual transmission spending is set to fall after two years of robust investment. 

MISO said it will pause its long-range transmission modeling and correct errors so it has the clearest picture of future grid performance.