FERC didn’t completely buy into MISO’s package of stricter rules to lighten its gridlocked interconnection queue, rejecting the RTO’s proposed annual megawatt cap on project submittals.

MISO said it will file by the end of the month to scrap a clunky and all-but-abandoned generator offer style from its tariff.

MISO dodged the need for emergency procedures during a mid-January cold blast that brought consecutive days of subzero temperatures to the Midwest.

Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled Senate voted to reject Public Service Commissioner Tyler Huebner’s nomination to the commission — nearly four years into his time there.

Xcel Energy insists its plan to retire two Minnesota coal plants won’t mar reliability even though the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission sent a letter urging the utility to hold off on shutting down the units.

Mark Christie used FERC’s latest order on transmission incentives to condemn the process as requests for incentives come in from several MISO’s long-range transmission projects.

MISO stakeholders pushed the RTO to publish sooner rather than later a new deadline for accepting aggregators of distributed resources into its markets.

MISO juggled several projects over 2023 designed to fend off imminent reliability problems and will keep up the multitasking in 2024.

A former Grand Gulf nuclear plant employee testified he witnessed mismanagement by supervisors and was fired for refusing to revise audits documenting problems.  

The MISO board approved the $9 billion, 572-project 2023 Transmission Expansion Plan, which contains the most expedited project reviews ever.