MISO will take another crack at identifying a project that could provide an alternative to the constrained transmission path linking its North and South regions.

MISO and its stakeholders are considering how to more accurately measure the potential benefits of proposed transmission projects.

MISO is considering moving ahead with a plan to streamline its report detailing the projects in its annual Transmission Expansion Plan beginning this year.

MISO now cautiously estimates that the benefits of a seasonal capacity auction would outweigh potential drawbacks.

MISO’s annual report on future trends includes suggestions for market changes that could ease the transition to a still hard-to-pin-down future fleet.

MISO’s 7th annual capacity auction cleared at $2.99/MW-day in all but 1 zone, a significant decline compared with last year’s nearly uniform $10 price.

MISO will kick off discussions on distributed energy resources policy after completing stakeholder workshops on integrating DER into its system.

FERC issued deficiency letters to all six jurisdictional RTOs and ISOs over their proposed energy storage rules, pressing for definitions, tariff citations and other details.

The SPP-MISO Joint Planning Committee has voted to begin a new coordinated system plan this year, SPP staff told the RTO’s Seams Steering Committee.

FERC conditionally accepted MISO’s address to an inherent conflict within its Tariff related to the termination of generator interconnection agreements.