MISO’s Advisory Committee is deliberating whether state regulators elected to the RTO’s Board of Directors should be subject to the same “cooling-off” period required for industry executives.

MISO estimates that it delivered between $3.2 billion and $3.9 billion in benefits to its members in 2018.

MISO will allow energy storage to compete against all types of transmission projects, scrapping an earlier condition that limited its use.

Benjamin Sloan, a former attorney in the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, will become the Organization of MISO States’ new director of regulatory affairs.

Declining costs and new market rules are opening opportunities for energy storage, but the technology’s operating characteristics are challenging RTOs.

ERCOT CEO Bill Magness told the Board of Directors the grid operator will use favorable budget variances to fund the addition of real-time co-optimization.

MISO will this year draw on three sets of contributors to create its load forecast for 2020 transmission planning.

MISO said it will explore whether to alter its long-term planning models to factor in expectations for an increased number of outages.

American Electric Power will buy Sempra Energy’s renewable business in a $1.1 billion deal that will triple AEP’s renewable portfolio.

Stakeholders are urging MISO to slow downits disjointed resource availability and need effort until it can measure the effects of 3 related FERC filings.