ERCOT Audit Squeezes Batch Zero as MISO Targets No-Shows
Monday, August 24, 2026 · 9 min
ERCOT’s data-center audit is putting Batch Zero timing in doubt, while MISO lines up new consequences for generators and demand-response resources unavailable during winter emergency conditions.
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ERCOT’s data-center audit is putting Batch Zero timing in doubt, while MISO lines up new consequences for generators and demand-response resources unavailable during winter emergency conditions.
In this episode
- Batch Zero Timing Endangered by Abbott’s Call for Audit — RTO Insider
ERCOT officials have set a December target to complete Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s request to verify and audit data centers and crypto miners seeking to interconnect to the grid. At the same time, they have been unable to say how the pause in validating the large loads will affect their original timeline. ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas told the Texas House State Affairs Committee during an Aug. 19 hearing…
- FERC Denies Maine Public Advocate’s Challenge of Asset Condition Costs — RTO Insider
FERC has denied a formal challenge of asset condition spending in New England, finding that the Maine Office of the Public Advocate (OPA) failed to demonstrate serious doubt about the prudency of the disputed projects. The OPA’s challenge centered around asset condition investments made in 2022. It argued that Eversource Energy and National Grid did not demonstrate an adequate analysis of project…
- MISO Wants Consequences for Gen Lead Time Extensions in Emergencies — RTO Insider
MISO said it will roll out new rules to discourage its market participants from stretching out their units’ lead times when a grid emergency is on the horizon. MISO’s control room operators have discovered in recent emergency events that owners of offline resources have logged into MISO’s nonpublic interface to extend their lead times as MISO approached or was in the middle of stressful grid…
- MISO Accepts 25% Increase for $1.2B Long-range Tx Project in Minn. — RTO Insider
MISO approved a $240 million cost hike for a long-range transmission project in Minnesota after the developers’ even larger cost increases triggered a re-evaluation of the project. The RTO wound up settling for a 24.74% cost increase — resetting a baseline cost estimate from $970 million to $1.21 billion — for the 345-kV Iron Range-Benton County-Big Oaks project, one of the long-range…
- MISO LMR Unavailability Investigation Triggers Debate on Closed Businesses — RTO Insider
MISO ’s first investigation into load-modifying resources’ unavailability during a winter storm set off a debate between MISO and stakeholders on what happens when businesses signed on for demand response close their doors. MISO previously found that more than a third (or 2.8 GW) of its accredited load-modifying resources marked themselves as unavailable in MISO’s scheduling interface during a…