MISO executives issued dire warnings about the possible fallout if the grid operator doesn’t pursue big ticket transmission projects in its footprint.

MISO is seeking ways to modify its annual transmission plan and make it easier for stakeholders to suggest alternatives to TOs’ project proposals.

MISO announced it will table the effort to analyze network upgrades and wait until the end of the year to see how its long-term transmission plan develops.

The cost of MISO’s 2021 Transmission Expansion Plan is set to ring in substantially below last year’s spending level, the RTO said at a planning meeting.

MISO will draw on its new planning futures to build the first set of models that could result in the long-term transmission plan’s first projects.

MISO state regulators debated what to include in a list of guidance principles on transmission project cost allocation they will send to the RTO.

Renewable supporters were frustrated about what they perceived as MISO’s premature declaration that its planning studies are above reproach.

The MISO Planning Subcommittee urged members to prepare for its new Model Manager and reported nearly 900 active transmission projects.

MISO is sticking with its usual slate of transmission planning studies for 2021, opting not to include specially targeted analyses in MTEP 21

A MISO board committee unanimously voted to send the $4 billion MTEP 2020 to the full board for a vote in December.