Latest Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator Stories
Results provide certainty, illustrate region's ample capacity supply, efficient use CARMEL, Ind., April 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MISO administered the first capacity auction under its recently enhanced resource adequacy construct this week. The system wide clearing price for the 2013-2014 planning year was $1.05 per megawatt-day. This result is reflective of the region's ample supply of generation and demand response resources as well as the robust transmission system, which ensures...
750 transmission projects authorized in 2012 VALLEY FORGE, Pa., March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Massive shifts in the fuels used to generate electricity are requiring major investments for electric transmission grid improvements, a recent study by PJM Interconnection reveals. In 2012, PJM, which plans improvements to the regional power grid, authorized more than 750 electric transmission improvement projects with a total cost of more than $5 billion. PJM's recently published report...
RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion (NYSE: D) announced today that the Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO) has concluded the shutdown and retirement of Kewaunee Power Station in northeastern Wisconsin will not affect the reliability of the regional electric transmission system. Dominion will proceed with its plans to close the 556-megawatt, single unit nuclear power station in Carlton, Wisc., in the second quarter of 2013, as the company announced last...
CARMEL, Ind., Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MISO's Board of Directors today approved seven new transmission-owning members, as well as a new transmission planning portfolio. These key initiatives strengthen the value realized by all MISO stakeholders and allow for the continued delivery of least-cost energy to consumers. The Board approved seven transmission-owning applications. The addition of six Entergy utility operating companies along with South Mississippi Electric Power...
CARMEL, Ind., Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MISO announced today that its members re-elected board members Michael J. Curran and Eugene W. Zeltmann at the regional grid operator's annual members' meeting . Both joined the MISO Board of Directors in 2007 and will begin their new three-year terms in January 2013. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121213/DE29561-a)(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121213/DE29561-b) "We're pleased that both Michael Curran and...
CARMEL, Ind., Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- South Mississippi Electric Power Association (SME) announced plans to join MISO, the regional grid operator, as a fully integrated transmission-owning member. SME provides wholesale electricity to 11 member-owned electric power associations in Mississippi. SME owns more than 1,700 miles of transmission lines and provides service for more than 410,000 ultimate customers throughout Mississippi. "We are pleased South Mississippi Electric...
VALLEY FORGE, Pa., Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The PJM Board has approved nearly $1 billion in additional electric transmission upgrades to maintain reliability power supplies for the 60 million people in PJM's region of 13 states and the District of Columbia. Altogether in 2012, the PJM Board authorized $4.7 billion in transmission projects. The upgrades announced today address projected reliability problems. The approvals are part of PJM's Regional Transmission Expansion Plan,...
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Five Entergy utilities took a key step toward membership in a regional transmission organization Friday via submission of the executed transmission owner agreement to the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator or MISO. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120913/MM74349LOGO) The utilities - Entergy Mississippi, Inc., Entergy Texas, Inc., Entergy Louisiana, LLC, Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C, and Entergy New Orleans,...
CARMEL, Ind., Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time since it began integrating wind into market operations in 2006, actual wind output surpassed 10,000 megawatts in MISO, the regional grid operator for 11 states and the Canadian province of Manitoba. The new wind peak took place overnight Friday, Nov. 23 with a peak output of 10,012 megawatts serving the energy needs of the MISO service territory and representing more than 25 percent of the generation output being...
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois (ATXI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE), received important regulatory approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to continue to move its Spoon River and Mark Twain transmission construction projects forward. FERC approved similar regulatory treatment for the Illinois Rivers transmission project in May 2011. The three projects are part of the $1.3 billion...
