MISO’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the 2019 MISO Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP 19) - a $4 billion portfolio consisting of 480 projects.
MISO’s Advisory Committee has decided not to pursue changes to how the RTO vets and selects its Board of Directors after more than a year of discussion.
MISO’s Board of Directors will remain unchanged heading after the same chairman and three incumbent directors were elected to retain their positions.
MISO avoided maximum generation alerts and events this fall despite dealing with record-breaking temperature swings in its southern footprint.
A new task team is considering sequencing parts of MISO’s transmission planning with network upgrades identified in generator interconnection studies.
MISO stakeholders debated whether the RTO is being too conservative in anticipating industry shifts in its new futures scenarios for transmission planning.
MISO says it will look to make improvements to the capacity testing process after sifting through results from its generators and discovering errors.
MISO received approval to require its generation developers to secure land for projects earlier in the interconnection queue over protests from developers.
MISO is moving ahead with a proposal to bring solar generation into market dispatch, reusing many rules that brought dispatchable wind generation.
MISO may have to devise new lines of communication, rethink its data management and alter dispatch rules to give DERs access to its markets.