Just three of MISO’s 11 member sectors voted to support the RTO’s $9 billion 2023 Transmission Expansion Plan.

Invenergy Transmission’s $7 billion, 800-mile Grain Belt Express HVDC line has secured the last of its state approvals with Missouri agreeing to the line’s expanded design.

MISO agrees that it should relax onerous transmission service requirements for energy storage resources charging from the grid.

FERC said MISO didn’t justify the need for an additional five-year gap between completion of its new market platform in 2024 and the first DER aggregation registrations in late 2029.

MISO’s Independent Market Monitor suggests demand response offer floors and attestations of expected levels of energy consumption in the wake of a steel mill’s gaming of the demand response market.

In keeping with its winter estimates from previous years, MISO said it could run into trouble in January should it experience high load or high outages.

The Gulf Coast Power Association welcome a record audience to its annual Fall Conference and discussions and vignettes on virtual power plants, energy efficiency, demand response, new technologies and grid resiliency.

MISO expounded on why its late August maximum generation emergency wasn’t met with prices dictated by its emergency offer floors.

MISO said it will push back a contentious filing for a new, marginal approach to capacity accreditation into early next year.

Market Monitors Joe Bowring and David Patton have doubts about the wisdom of large-scale transmission expansions, warning they may crowd out market solutions.