Thank you for your Data Request. MISO is committed to processing your request in a timely
fashion. Please send your completed form via the MISO Service Request through the Market
Portal. If you have questions about the status of this request, please contact Client Relations at
1-866-296-6476, Option 1 or email clientrelations@misoenergy.org.
Request date: 4/2/2015
Name of company requesting data: Wood Mackenzie
NERC ID:
Please indicate your industry sector: Consulting/Research
If non-MP, what MP are you working on behalf of? Xcel Energy
Contact name: Wade Schauer
Contact phone: 916-690-5167
Contact email: wade.schauer@woodmac.com
What is the best way to contact you about your data request?
Phone X Email
Please provide a high-level description of the data you are requesting.
I’m requesting that the MISO website provide aggregated historical hourly wind generation data
separately for each of MISOs Local Resource Zones (a separate data series each for LRZ1 –
LRZ9) for the period 1/1/2010 through [Present less 1 month]. Then, in an ongoing basis the
MISO Market Reports will update this information with data posting every day for the day 30 days
prior.
Please provide a high-level description of why you are requesting the data.
MISO currently reports aggregated historical hourly wind generation for the entire MISO footprint
in the Market reports. However, the MISO footprint is a vast geography spanning 14 states and
nine Local Resource Zones. In any given hour wind farms in one LRZ might be producing at
very high capacity factor while wind farms in a distant LRZ might be producing at a very low
capacity factor due to different weather patterns. As a result, the historical wind shape for all of
MISO does not allow stakeholders to understand historical transmission conjestion patterns that
arose due to localized wind/load interactions. By providing MISO LRZ-level historical wind
generation, stakeholders will be able to better evaluate the future impacts of renewable energy
policy and EPA regulations and the resulting transmission expansion requirements.
Who is the intended audience for this data request?
All MISO stakeholders would benefit from this information.
How critical is this data to your company?
X Critical
Very Important
Necessary
When do you need this data?
July 2015
How long do you need this data in your possession?
Indefinitely – it would be publically available on the MISO website.
Please use the space below to provide additional information about your data request.
Almost every fossil-fueled generator within MISO is required to provide historical hourly
generation and emissions data to the EPA on a quarterly basis, which is effectively delayed by 13 months. Thus, providing 9 delayed LRZ hourly wind generation data series would not be an
egregious reporting burden for MISO or disadvantage any MISO wind generator any more than
the 100s of MISO fossil generators that have to report their historical hourly operational data –
especially since the request is not for individual wind farms, just aggregated LRZ-level hourly
output.
For comparison
• PJM provides some “regional” disaggregation of historical wind output.
• California ISO provides historical wind generation for Northern and Southern California
separately.
• The Alberta AESO and Ontario IESO markets provide historical wind generation for each
individual wind plant.
DISCLAIMER: By submitting this Data Request to the MISO, you hereby acknowledge and agree
that the data being requested may be confidential and/or CEII and, therefore, may require that
you have one or more valid confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement(s) on file with the MISO
prior to disclosure. You further affirm the accuracy of the information provided in this Data
Request and agree to notify MISO in writing of any changes to this information. Failure to comply
may result in the revocation, at MISO's sole discretion, of access to and permission to use
requested data and the denial of future requests.