CARMEL, Ind. — There are material challenges threatening the electric system reliability, MISO says in the updated version of its Reliability Imperative report released today. The updated report identifies that electricity providers, states, and MISO must address these challenges in a more urgent and coordinated fashion.
“The challenges we face are not way down the road; they are here right in front of us,” said MISO Chief Executive Officer John Bear. “We need to execute on the solutions that we’ve already developed with our stakeholders, and we need to collaborate more closely to collectively address these pressing issues.”
In addition to significant changes to the generation fleet, the electric power industry is facing an increase in extreme weather events, large load additions, electrification, supply chain issues, permitting delays and fuel assurance issues. This confluence of factors contributes to MISO’s rapidly changing reliability risk profile.
In light of the urgent and complex reliability risks, MISO is working with its members and states with a more concentrated focus on:
“Maintaining reliability will become more challenging because the grid of the future is going to be much more complex,” adds John Bear. “We’re seeing traditional generators being replaced by resources that aim to meet clean energy goals but that do not have the same reliability attributes as those they are replacing.”
The Reliability Imperative is the term used to describe the shared responsibility that MISO, its members, and states must address the urgent and complex challenges to electric system reliability. MISO first published a Reliability Imperative report in late 2020 and has updated it several times since then to reflect changing conditions and circumstances. Visit the MISO website to read the full report.
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