MISO will pursue changes to its Transmission Expansion Plan futures weighting process in the 2019 cycle of projects.

MISO will conduct a study to identify the challenges of integrating growing volumes of renewable generation in its footprint.

MISO’s Planning Advisory Committee heard updates on the RTO’s ambitious slate of current planning studies and process improvements.

MISO plans by the end of the year to introduce Tariff changes eliminating resource suspensions in favor of a single retirement process.

Market developments are compelling MISO to reconsider how it weighs the 15-year future scenarios designed to inform its 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan.

MISO has made two changes to its newest future scenario in its annual Transmission Expansion Plan, adding more renewables and possible nuclear retirements.

The first MISO-SPP interregional project inched closer to reality Thursday with a vote of confidence from the MISO Planning Advisory Committee.

MISO transmission planners outlined three possible congestion-busting projects in Louisiana and a “skeleton” of potential projects from an overlay study.

MISO is planning to eliminate temporary suspensions of generating resources, a move the RTO says will provide resource owners more flexibility.

MISO is recommending the addition of a fourth future to its 2018 transmission planning to reflect localized carbon reduction efforts and battery storage.