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Marcus Hawkins: “RTOs have a huge hundreds of millions of dollars of benefit…”

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 38:39

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. But it is what an RTO is doing and it has RTOs have a huge hundreds of millions of dollars of benefit, you know, annually type of impact on customers. And then, yeah, the other, the other main benefit is what I was just talking about with that seems coordination. It just makes reliability coordination amongst neighbors much, much simpler. (38:39–38:49)

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Asserts that RTOs provide significant financial benefits to customers annually.

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