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AN INTRODUCTION TO
THE MIDWEST ISO
By Bill Malcolm
Manager-State Regulatory Affairs
Pierre, South Dakota
June 9, 2006
Overview
Midwest ISO is an independent, non-profit reliability coordinator for
the transmission of high voltage electricity via a security constrained
economic dispatch across all or parts of 15 states and Manitoba
 Began Reliability Operations on December
15, 2001
 Market Operations since April 1, 2005
 Multi-control area environment (35 Control
Areas; 26 in the market)
 Peak Loads:
- Summer 2005--131,434 MW set on
August 3, 2005
- Winter 2005/2006: 106,900 set on
December 19, 2005
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RTO Services
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Monitor flow of power over the high voltage transmission system
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Schedule transmission service
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Manage power congestion through locational marginal pricing
(LMP) energy market
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Long term regional transmission planning
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Operate real-time and day-ahead energy markets
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Five minute security-constrained dispatch of the market
(maintaining reliability in most economic manner)
South Dakota and Midwest ISO
 Otter Tail, MDU, Xcel are transmission
owning members
 Basin, Missouri River and WAPA are nontransmission owning members. MidAmerican
is a member in the power market sector
 PUC is one of the lead states on the MISO
Advisory Committee
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Midwest ISO Market Operations
 Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP) based upon Security
Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED)
 SCED minimizes cost to serve load while maintaining
reliability of electrical system
 1,435 Commercial Pricing Nodes
 Generator instructions calculated
and sent every 5-minutes
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 Centralize Generation Dispatch and Outage
Management
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New Power Plants in South Dakota
 Big Stone #2 (600 MW coal)
 Brookings County 100 MW wind project:
interconnection agreement signed
 Two other 100.5 MW wind projects and one
138 MW wind plant being studied in Deuel
County
 SD/IA/MN area of concern: amount of
proposed generation exceeds reliable outlet
transmission capacity
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Transmission Service Requests
 Approved 114 transmission service requests
 136 requests under study (Big Stone Unit 2,
group study involving constrained facilities in
southwest Minnesota, plus one new study)
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Big Stone #2 Proposed Upgrade
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West Study Group Upgrades
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 Seams Coordination
IESO
MAPP
PJM
TVA
SPP
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MISO-MAPPCOR
Seams Operating Agreement (SOA)
• Data exchange
• Planning Coordination
• Outage Coordination
• Transmission Service Request Evaluation
Coordination
• Congestion Management Process (TLR
Avoidance)
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Current Issues/Recent Developments
 Summer assessment: 18% reserve margin
 Ancillary service markets
 June 5 resource adequacy FERC filing
 Single dispatch MISO-PJM: Savings less
than .2% of total production costs
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Upcoming Events
 6/14 Advisory Committee meeting, state of
the market report presented
 6/29 Regional expansion criteria benefits
task force meeting (economic upgrades to
the grid)
 7/10 Ancillary services task force
 9/1 RECB filing expected: economic
upgrades to the grid
 9/20 Advisory Committee meeting, St. Paul
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To get involved in the Midwest ISO
 Sign up for West study group, RECB, and
planning advisory committee on the extranet
 Participate in our stakeholder meetings
 Tour our control centers in St. Paul or
Carmel
 Contact Bill Malcolm (317) 249-5426 or
[email protected]
 Visit our website: www.midwestmarket.org
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