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Marcus Hawkins: “MISO is ensuring that no resources that are more expensive…”

Featuring: Marcus Hawkins, Wisconsin Public Service Commission

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Electric Wire, Ep. 39 - Marcus Hawkins discusses his role leading the Organization of MISO States

Published | Video Starts at 38:14

… running that and just, you know, increasing electric, electric bills for your customers if there are cheaper generators out there and MISO can flow cheaper electricity to you. So what MISO is ensuring that no resources that are more expensive than they need to be are running. And so it's kind of minimizing that cost function for customers. And that optimization is extremely complex and takes a football field size room of computers to optimize all of the different generators and all the different loads. (38:14–38:24)

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Asserts that MISO optimizes electricity dispatch to minimize costs by avoiding expensive resources.

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