southern January 2018 cold snap
MISO should have adequate capacity to navigate winter but could still face abnormal weather-related outages or a load-shedding event.
MISO is calling on expertise from its local balancing authorities to help improve load forecasting, RTO engineers told stakeholders.
Midcontinent ISO now has a fifth wintertime waiver of its $1,000/MWh offer cap in hand after FERC approved the RTO’s request on Nov. 16.
NERC’s Board of Trustees and Member Representatives Committee held their quarterly meetings at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta. Here are some of the highlights.
Most RTOs say they are ready for winter but the possibility of fuel shortages during an extended cold spell is keeping ISO-NE officials up at night.
Lessons from the Jan. 17 MISO South emergency resulted in smoother management of the Sept. 15 emergency in the region, RTO officials told stakeholders.
FERC and NERC are conducting a joint inquiry into the January cold snap that resulted in generation outages in MISO South.
The SPP Board of Directors approved a Tariff change requiring non-dispatchable variable energy resources (NDVERs) to register as dispatchable (DVERs).
Infocast’s first SPP and MISO Markets Summit attracted participants and industry representatives from the RTOs’ footprints for panel discussions.
The SPP Market Monitoring Unit (MMU) reported that energy prices averaged about $23/MWh in the spring, despite higher loads.
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