MISO officials are still hashing out how they can best model and analyze energy storage-as- transmission in the RTO’s transmission planning process.

Several MISO stakeholders are criticizing Tariff filings the RTO plans to make by the end of the year to free up an additional 5 to 10 GW of capacity.

MISO’s 10 sectors are split over whether state regulators should be subjected to a one-year moratorium before they’re eligible to serve on the RTO’s board.

MISO’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan in its entirety despite stakeholder objections.

The MISO Board of Directors approved allocating $20.5 million for another year of the RTO’s ongoing effort to replace its market platform.

MISO stakeholders said impact to customers and solid business cases should factor prominently in any new regional transmission package.

Stakeholders are skeptical of MISO's proposed Tariff revisions imposing stricter outage rules and load-modifying resource requirements.

MISO had its revised cost allocation proposal for the RTO’s targeted market efficiency projects with PJM approved by FERC.

Energy Storage is glaringly absent from MISO’s potential plans to manage a possible 40% renewable penetration on the grid, stakeholders told the RTO.

MISO said it has selected NextEra Energy Transmission Midwest to construct the Hartburg-Sabine junction project, wrapping up months of evaluation.