Five years after it introduced rules to curb generators’ uninstructed deviations from dispatch instructions, MISO said such departures are worse than ever and it likely needs to strengthen rules and software.

MISO will prototype its proposed short-term reserve product to demonstrate cost and benefits to its members.

MISO will this March begin testing new rules to deal with generators’ uninstructed deviations from dispatch orders, stakeholders learned.

MISO technical staff are currently devoting time to improving the nonpublic webpages the RTO uses to accept energy bids and offers.

MISO’s Monitor is backing the RTO’s proposal to allow generators to recoup a portion of make-whole payments even when their ramp rates fall short.

Market participants have united to develop a trio of alternatives to MISO’s plan to crack down on generators that fail to follow dispatch instructions.

MISO and its members have selected eight market-improvement projects from its annual Market Roadmap to focus on in 2018.

Ameren Missouri is urging MISO to scrap a newly proposed process for identifying when generators deviate from dispatch instructions.

MISO is seeking stakeholder feedback on its proposal to crack down on generators that fail to follow dispatch instructions.

The MISO Advisory Committee is attempting to resuscitate a discussion about how to handle generators that fail to follow dispatch instructions.