MISO's Feb. 8 Planning Subcommittee meeting introduced a new task team dedicated to transmission reconfigurations.

MISO has put the earliest version of its 2022 Annual Transmission Plan at $3.3 billion while accepting a handful of expedited project requests.

MISO's Board Week touched on its 2021 Transmission Expansion Plan, long-range transmission portfolio and a joint study with SPP intended to build transmission.

While Entergy New Orleans has expedited one transmission reliability project, Entergy Arkansas has canceled four reliability projects approved by MISO in 2018. 

A cycle of generation projects in MISO’s Central planning region has accrued a whopping $2 billion in upgrades in order to connect to the transmission system. 

MISO acknowledged this week that a December approval for its first long-range transmission projects is out of reach and must wait until early spring.

MISO says voltage stability and thermal issues will get out of hand within the decade unless it instates some transmission solutions.

MISO said it will pause its long-range transmission modeling and correct errors so it has the clearest picture of future grid performance.

In a first-quarter earnings call with analysts, Fortis CEO David Hutchens highlighted the work of subsidiary ITC Transmission in MISO and PJM.

Mich. regulators will assess a 2019 MISO transmission project to determine whether it should remain in the grid operator’s 2019 Transmission Expansion Plan.