MISO is reviewing an expedited project request from ATC to connect a massive Foxconn manufacturing plant that would be Wisconsin’s largest power user.

Stakeholder sectors have eschewed MISO’s suggestion that they apply equal weight to the RTO’s four 15-year future scenarios used for next year’s planning.

Market developments are compelling MISO to reconsider how it weighs the 15-year future scenarios designed to inform its 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan.

MISO has made two changes to its newest future scenario in its annual Transmission Expansion Plan, adding more renewables and possible nuclear retirements.

MISO transmission planners outlined three possible congestion-busting projects in Louisiana and a “skeleton” of potential projects from an overlay study.

MISO is recommending the addition of a fourth future to its 2018 transmission planning to reflect localized carbon reduction efforts and battery storage.