MISO prepares for ‘worst-case scenarios,’ heads into summer with insufficient firm generation

Robert Walton

Dive Insight:
The dire assessment released Wednesday shouldn’t come as a surprise, said MISO officials.
“The seasonal assessment aligns with the cleared resources identified in the 2022-2023 Planning Resource Auction, which indicated capacity shortfalls in both the north and central regions of MISO and leaving those areas at increased risk of temporary, controlled outages to preserve the integrity of the bulk electric system,” MISO Executive Director of Market Operations JT Smith said in a statement.
The auction resulted in capacity prices jumping to …

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