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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
Schedule transmission service
Manage power congestion through locational marginal pricing
(LMP) energy market
Long term regional transmission planning
Operate real-time and day-ahead energy markets
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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