In an assessment of this year’s load forecast, MISO told load-serving entities they could do more to support their individual forecasts with documentation.

MISO CEO John Bear opened GCPA’s MISO South Regional Conference with the RTO’s strategic initiatives and the five “500-year” storms it has experienced.

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

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.

MISO will spend much of 2019 working on how it can prevent the increasingly frequent emergency conditions it experienced in 2018.

MISO officials are still hashing out how they can best model and analyze energy storage-as- transmission in the RTO’s transmission planning process.

MISO’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan in its entirety despite stakeholder objections.

MISO stakeholders said impact to customers and solid business cases should factor prominently in any new regional transmission package.

MISO staff are seeking to advance the RTO’s full 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan despite stakeholder objections to two projects.