FERC should reject MISO’s petition to limit its market monitor’s oversight re: transmission planning, according to a group of state utility regulators and ratepayer advocates. (Utility Dive)
The MISO petition asks FERC to declare that “unsolicited” long-range transmission planning monitoring and evaluation is outside the scope of its market monitor’s responsibilities.
Potomac Economics, MISO’s independent market monitor, said, “It is difficult to conceive of a coherent argument that transmission planning does not affect MISO’s markets and services.”
But: “Unsolicited monitoring and evaluation of MISO’s transmission planning activities are beyond the bounds of Potomac’s tariff-assigned responsibilities and as such, should not be entitled to compensation by MISO customers,” said a cohort of MISO transmission owners including Ameren, Duke Energy, and Entergy.