MISO said it is seeking ways to help slow-starting units make more informed decisions but won’t plunge into developing a financially binding forward market.

FERC allowed MISO to edit its tariff to clear up performance rules for load-modifying resources. Its new ruleset clarifies how performance is evaluated.

MISO said it is close to completing a proposal to create a four-season capacity market after floating a rudimentary plan with skeptical stakeholders.

SPP’s average hourly load was off 7% last fall from the previous two years, the RTO’s MMU said in its latest quarterly State of the Market report.

MISO’s plan to extend payment arrangements for market participants that use the Midwest-to-South transmission path is destined for settlement proceedings.

MISO hopes to have a more nuanced pricing plan before the next hurricane contorts transmission towers.

A new FERC rule says MISO interconnection customers with signed agreements can no longer abandon generation projects without assuming financial risk.

SPP regulators agreed to keep up their collaboration with MISO regulators, saying the effort is pressuring the RTOs to resolve their seams issues.

The cost of MISO’s 2021 Transmission Expansion Plan is set to ring in substantially below last year’s spending level, the RTO said at a planning meeting.

MISO will ask FERC for more time to plan the complicated process of opening its markets to distributed energy resource aggregators, RTO officials said.