February 23, 2025

Planning Resource Auction (PRA)

GRE
MISO Promises Stakeholder Discussions on Capacity Auction Reform
MISO leadership last week committed to holding future talks with stakeholders on how to retool its capacity auction to stimulate more supply.
MRO
MRO Warns Energy Emergencies Likely in Summer
The Midwest Reliability Organization's summer assessment revealed significant risks in three of its four subregions, potentially leading to energy emergencies.
Potomac Economics
MISO Warming to Patton’s Sloped Demand Curve
MISO's board may be coming around to the idea of using a sloped demand curve to price capacity as the RTO confronts the possibility of resource shortages.
MISO Describes Bleak RA Future, Stakeholders Push Back
MISO executives issued warnings about its future resource adequacy in front of its board of directors while some state regulators and stakeholders pushed back.
MISO
FERC to Take 2nd Look at 2015 MISO Capacity Auction
FERC said it will take another look into whether Dynegy manipulated pricing in MISO’s 2015/16 capacity auction and violated federal laws.
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MISO Board Meets Amid RA Concerns, Emergency Alerts
MISO’s board of directors gathering covered concern over slipping capacity reserves as heat blistered the footprint and forced emergency preparations.
MISO and OMS
OMS-MISO RA Survey Says Supply Deficits Could Top 10 GW by 2027
MISO and the Organization of MISO States’ 2022 resource adequacy survey again sounded the supply alarm rung from the 2022/23 capacity auction results.
Vistra
MISO Customers Ask for Penalty-free Load Reductions
MISO transmission customers argued to FERC that MISO should allow customers to decrement their load penalty-free to lessen the possibility of summer blackouts.
MISO
Midwest Capacity Shortage Leads to Must-offer Talk
MISO’s capacity auction shortfall has nearly doubled its probability of load shedding in its Midwest region, prompting discussion of must-offer requirements.
ICC
MISO Exec, IMM Debate Next Steps After Capacity Auction Shortfall
A month after its capacity auction revealed a Midwestern supply scarcity, MISO’s Independent Market Monitor and a MISO vice president debated the path forward.

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