This afternoon, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission conditionally approved the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator’s (MISO) proposed tariff amendment regarding allocating the cost of network upgrades for generation interconnection projects meeting MISO’s regional expansion criteria and benefits (RECB) standards. See my previous blog entry for a more detailed discussion on the history of the tariff amendment, as well
FERC Issues MISO Letter of Deficiency on RECB Cost Allocation Issue
On September 2, 2009, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a letter of deficiency to the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator in MISO’s RECB Phase I generator interconnect cost allocation tariff amendment proceedings (Docket No. ER09-1431). See my previous blog entry on AWEA’s protest to the MISO filing for additional background.
The letter instructs MISO
AWEA, Others File Protests at FERC to MISO Proposed Cost Allocation
On August 13, 2009, the American Wind Energy Association, Wind on the Wires and certain wind developers filed protests at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator’s (MISO) recent filing at FERC. The MISO filing proposes to revise MISO’s cost allocation methodology for network upgrades for generator interconnection, and resulted from MISO’s Regional Expansion Criteria & Benefits (RECB) Task
FERC Rejects MISO’s Market Coordination Service Proposal, Approves Anchor Tenant Merchant Transmission
From our colleague and FERC guru, Jason Johns:
MISO’s Proposed Market Coordination Service:
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today rejected the Midwest ISO’s proposed Market Coordination Service that would have given certain transmission owners access to the ISO energy and operating reserve markets without requiring those owners to hand over control of facilities
Client Alert: FERC’s Conditional Approval of MISO Queue Reform
Check out our client alert on FERC’s recent conditional approval of MISO’s revised large generator interconnection process. It provides highlights of the ruling and identifies next steps that MISO must take in order to flesh out some issues, including certain milestones that generators must meet in order to move towards getting their project interconnected.
Beth Soholt, executive director of Wind
FERC Rules on MISO Queue Reform Proposal
On August 25, FERC issued its ruling on the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO) plan to reform the generator interconnection queue process – the method by which transmission requirements for generators wishing to connect new projects to the grid in the Midwest are reviewed and approved. FERC conditionally accepted the proposed tariff revisions, with an effective date