The clog: Last year, storage contributed just 370 MW of MISO’s new 3.1 GW of capacity, per Potomac Economics’s recent report. The mismatch? Battery storage makes up 21% of the grid operator’s roughly 220-GW interconnection queue, as Rao Konidena pointed out on his Substack. “The pipeline is there. The market entry isn’t,” he wrote.
The plunger: To speed things up, the market monitor thinks MISO should update its planning models to capture storage’s growing value (and shrinking installation costs).
Molly Glick
Energy Central Team
Sun, Jul 12