MISO and SPP won’t undertake a major interregional transmission study in 2021 because they are focusing on a joint targeted interconnection queue study. | Organization of MISO States
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MISO announced it will table the effort to analyze network upgrades and wait until the end of the year to see how its long-term transmission plan develops. | MISO
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A new FERC rule states that MISO interconnection customers with signed agreements can no longer abandon generation projects without assuming additional financial risk. | MISO
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MISO said that it will approach SPP about improving the processes underpinning affected system studies in response to stakeholders’ persistent calls for change. | MISO
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FERC granted Pattern Energy a waiver of MISO’s interconnection rules for its wind farm in Wisconsin because of delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Pattern Energy
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MISO stakeholders said another round of expensive system upgrades would render the RTO’s West planning region a “dead zone” for new generation. | MISO
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MISO members have recommended that the RTO’s 2020 Transmission Expansion Plan proceed to final approval in December. | © RTO Insider
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MISO must clear up language regarding surplus interconnection service and material modifications to comply with Order 845, FERC ruled. | NREL
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MISO and its Independent Market Monitor are at odds over how — and exactly how quickly — the RTO should address its resource adequacy, board members heard Tuesday. | © RTO Insider
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Some state regulators aren’t convinced about the wisdom of merging MISO’s transmission planning with interconnection studies, a move supporters say could improve cost effectiveness. | Midwest Reliability Organization
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MISO can begin requiring new solar generation in its footprint to become dispatchable by early 2022, FERC ruled.
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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. | MISO
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MISO gathered interconnection and transmission customers in a special teleconference to discuss potential waivers of its queue requirements because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. | © RTO Insider
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FERC approved a new MISO Tariff provision that allows transmission owners to recover interconnection facility O&M costs from interconnection customers.
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Fresh off approval for one change to its interconnection process, MISO is still looking for more ways to advance generation projects more quickly through its queue. | MISO
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MISO is still assessing the impact of FERC’s recent order reinstating transmission owners’ rights to self-fund network upgrades as renewable proponents express worry. | MISO
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FERC directed MISO to submit another Order 845 compliance filing to clear up its study process related to technological advancements, partial service requests and contingent facilities. | MISO
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A new task team is considering sequencing parts of MISO’s transmission planning with network upgrades identified in generator interconnection studies. | © RTO Insider
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MISO received FERC approval to require its generation developers to secure land for projects earlier in the interconnection queue over some protests from renewable developers. | MISO
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Renewable proponents are calling on MISO to revamp a transmission planning process that they say inhibits the development of renewable generation in the RTO’s western region. | Madison Gas and Electric
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