MISO Capacity PRA 2024/25 Scheduled to start March 26th | Capacity Watch Blog
March 20th, 2024 | Blog Post | capacity-watch, miso
MISO’s Capacity Auction PRA for 2024/25 is set to begin on March 26th, 2024. The Planning Resource Auction offer window for all seasons opens at 8AM on March 26th.
The auction results for each season will be posted on April 26th, with additional auction details expected to be released by late May.
Each of the four seasons begin on the following dates throughout the 2024/25 Planning year:
- Summer season begins June 1, 2024
- Fall season begins September 1, 2024
- Winter season begins December 1, 2024
- Spring season begins March 1, 2025
The MISO 2023/24 PRA was the first auction to implement the MISO’s seasonal market design and accreditation rules. An increase in supply and decline in Planning Reserve Margin Requirement (PRMR) for that auction resulted in a drop in clearing prices from the 2022/23 Planning Resource Auction (PRA). Unlike the 2022/23 PRA, no zones had capacity shortfalls. As expected, the vertical demand curve resulted in relatively low prices for most locations and seasons, despite relatively thin reserve margins.
ESAI’s MISO Capacity Service subscribers have access to our pre-auction 2024/25 PRA Outlook and seasonal forecasts for the upcoming PRA for Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring 2024/25, with detailed forecasts for MISO, North-Central, South, Zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 3, Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8, and Zone 9.
ESAI brings 20 years of experience analyzing and forecasting the Capacity Markets in PJM, ISO-NE and NYISO, into our Capacity coverage of MISO.
ESAI maintains a MISO Generation Asset Monitor (Delivered to subscribers monthly) that tracks the MISO Interconnection queue to forecast Renewables Additions that produces a Probability Weighted Renewable Additions forecast, any Fossil Additions, and also any plant Retirements or forecasting plants at risk of retirement. This is input to produce our 10-year MISO forward Supply curve that is then balanced with Demand to help us produce our long term MISO Capacity PRA 2024/25 Forecast.
ESAI provides updates on supply & demand fundamentals, market rule developments, & policy changes that impact MISO capacity market outcomes. This service includes:
- Pre-Auction forecast and briefing prior to each PRA.
- Post-Auction results and impact on MISO Capacity prices moving forward.
- Briefing (PowerPoint) summarizing recent developments related to the MISO RA market including 10-year supply and demand outlook.
- MISO PRA forecast updates
- MISO Generation Asset Monitor (GAM) published monthly with New Capacity and Retirement Data
- Annual Market Briefing And Update
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