MISO West won’t see any major projects in this year’s transmission planning cycle, despite complaints that renewables in the interconnection queue necessitate billions in upgrades.

FERC approved Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s request to make wholesale sales of energy, capacity and ancillary services at market-based rates.

The 5th Circuit is likely to uphold a Texas law giving incumbent transmission companies the right of first refusal to build new lines in the state.

Unseasonably warm weather has nudged MISO load a little closer to normal this week, though demand is still being compressed by pandemic safety measures.

Stakeholders are divided on whether MISO has conducted enough analysis to justify adopting seasonal capacity auctions and loss-of-load expectation studies.

Five generators struck a $10M settlement with MISO and PJM over the RTOs’ past practice of double-charging pseudo-tied generation for congestion fees.

Coal plant self-commitments saddled MISO customers with $350 million in unnecessary costs in 2018, according to analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The 2020 MISO Transmission Expansion Plan contains 510 proposed projects at a combined $4.06 billion, the priciest since the RTO's 2011 MVP portfolio.

MISO is calling on expertise from its local balancing authorities to help improve load forecasting, RTO engineers told stakeholders.

FERC reversed its earlier stance that would have required nonpublic utility transmission owners in MISO and SPP to explicitly commit to providing refunds.