December 20, 2013
FERC has granted rehearing concerning the cost recovery of Providers of Last Resort in the Midwest ISO capacity market, agreeing that it erred in a prior order which allowed such POLRs to recover undefined "administrative" costs.
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December 28, 2012
FERC erred in requiring the Midwest ISO to include in its tariff a mechanism allowing the Provider of Last Resort to recover, through the MISO tariff, "administrative" costs of procuring so-called "gap" capacity -- demand that is unserved due to load switching among load serving entities, MISO said…
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December 28, 2012
Retail suppliers in the Midwest ISO contesting their assigned demand forecasts, and the capacity obligations inherent in such forecasts, will be subject to the MISO alternate dispute resolution process, a process which MISO concedes is, "neither rapid nor free of costs."
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November 28, 2012
Implementation of a revised capacity market in the Midwest ISO continues to get more complex for competitive retail suppliers as FERC ordered the Midwest ISO to propose a mechanism to allow Providers of Last Resort, which are allocated any capacity obligations not accounted for in individual LSE…
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October 23, 2012
The Midwest ISO's latest proposed changes to its capacity market, regarding the allocation of capacity obligations, are "unworkable" and reveal the flaws inherent in MISO's current methodology, the Retail Energy Supply Association said in comments to FERC.
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