[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 89 (Thursday, May 7, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27216-27217]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-09751]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. ER20-588-000]


Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.; Supplemental 
Notice of Technical Conference

    By order dated March 10, 2020,\1\ the Commission directed staff to 
convene a technical conference regarding Midcontinent Independent 
System Operator, Inc.'s (MISO) filing of proposed revisions to its Open 
Access Transmission, Energy and Operating Reserve Markets Tariff to 
allow for the selection of a storage facility as a transmission-only 
asset (SATOA) in the MISO Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP). The 
technical conference will explore issues including, but not limited to, 
MISO's proposed evaluation and selection criteria for SATOAs, the 
SATOA's market activities and any potential wholesale market impacts of 
those activities, how MISO's current formula rate structure 
accommodates cost recovery for SATOAs, a SATOA's potential effects on 
the generator interconnection queue, and operating guides that will 
apply to a SATOA.\2\
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    \1\ Midcontinent Indep. Sys. Operator, Inc., 170 FERC 61,186 
(2020).
    \2\ Id. P 56.
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    As announced in the Notice of Technical Conference issued on April 
10, 2020, the Commission will hold this staff-led technical conference 
on Monday, May 4, 2020, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). 
As explained in the April 10, 2020 notice, the conference will be held 
remotely. Questions that will be discussed at the technical conference 
were also included in the April 10, 2020 notice.
    The conference will include discussions between Commission staff 
and MISO. Commissioners may also participate in the technical 
conference. If time permits, there may be an opportunity for parties 
that are participating in the conference to ask questions or provide 
comments. The technical conference will not be transcribed.
    The agenda (attached to this Notice) and information on joining the 
technical conference is posted on the Events Calendar available at 
https://www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx?View=listview.
    Commission conferences are accessible under section 508 of the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations, please 
send an email to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 1-866-208-
3372 (voice) or 202-502-8659 (TTY); or send a fax to 202-208-2106 with 
the required accommodations.
    Following the technical conference, the Commission will consider 
post-technical conference comments submitted on or before May 25, 2020. 
The written comments will be included in the formal record of the 
proceeding, which, together with the record developed to date, will 
form the basis for further Commission action.
    For more information about this technical conference, please 
contact Mark Byrd, 202-502-8071, mark.byrd@ferc.gov. For information 
related to logistics, please contact Sarah McKinley, 202-502-8368, 
sarah.mckinley@ferc.gov.

    Dated: May 1, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.

Storage as a Transmission-Only Asset (SATOA) in MISO

Technical Conference--Webex Teleconference

Monday, May 4, 2020

9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Evaluation and Selection Criteria for SATOA
     Identified Transmission System performance requirement
     Unique Characteristics or Circumstances
     Functioning as SATOA Compared to Market Participant
10:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Evaluation and Selection Criteria for SATOA 
(continued)
     Traditional Transmission Project compared to SATOA
     SATOA Evaluation Criteria
     Communication of Decision Approving a SATOA
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. SATOA Market Activities and Market Impacts

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     Meaning of ``Functional Control''
     Impact of SATOA Activity on Wholesale Market
     Information Regarding Market Participant
12:45 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Cost Recovery for SATOAs
     Formula Rate Structure
2:15 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Impact on the Generator Interconnection Queue
     Assessing the Impact of a SATOA on Newly Interconnecting 
Generating Resources
     Assessment of Delays and Mitigation
3:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Operating Guides  Information in Operating 
Guides
4:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Miscellaneous  Emergency Conditions 
 Reliability Impacts

[FR Doc. 2020-09751 Filed 5-6-20; 8:45 am]
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