September 18, 2017
Adopts Capacity Showing Rules, Limits Reliance on MISO Auction To 5%
The Michigan PSC, in an order on the capacity demonstration process, ruled that LSEs, including retail suppliers, will not need to meet a locational capacity requirement for the period 2018-2021, but opened a new proceeding to determine the allocation of the forward locational requirement starting…
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August 1, 2017
While the Michigan PSC said there will be enough electricity available to meet customer needs throughout Michigan in the next five years, the PSC said that it, "remains concerned," that load serving entities in the Lower Peninsula do not have adequate capacity to meet the planning reserve…
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May 12, 2017
The Michigan PSC affirmed that determining how load serving entities, including retail suppliers, are able to demonstrate compliance with certain statutory capacity requirements shall be addressed in the PSC's previously adopted technical conference process, not utility rate cases nor cases…
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May 12, 2017
The Michigan PSC denied a request from Consumers Energy which had sought to compel the disclosure of retail electric suppliers' confidential resource adequacy compliance showings filed with the PSC
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March 13, 2017
With FERC rejecting the Midcontinent ISO's proposal for a forward capacity auction specific to retail choice states, the Michigan PSC, consistent with recent legislation, has established a process to establish a State Reliability Mechanism (SRM), under which retail suppliers will be required to pay…
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