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MISO last week floated a proposal that would require network upgrades needed by projects in the generator interconnection queue to reach certain voltage and price levels before they could be tested for the economic benefits needed for cost-sharing eligibility. But renewable proponents argue the plan wouldn’t do much for developers...

MISO has temporarily backed off requiring load-serving entities to provide the location and capacity values of distributed energy resources for its planning models. Planning Modeling Manager Amanda Schiro said the requirement for LSEs to provide counts of inverter-based DERs on distribution systems has been downgraded to a request for 2021.

MISO staff last week floated initial ideas on how the RTO could better synchronize the separate studies supporting its annual transmission planning and generator interconnection queue processes. The RTO took up the issue after multiple renewable developers complained that their generation projects were unfairly being required to finance multimillion-dollar network...

MISO on Monday presented stakeholders a long-awaited set of transmission planning futures that it insists are final despite calls for an additional scenario that models an economic downturn stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. "Keep in mind we’re not trying to predict what will happen; we’re trying to predict bookends of...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO staff will commence work on a project to better align generation interconnections and transmission planning after stakeholders retired the task team charged with suggesting ways to bridge the two processes. Stakeholders created the Coordinated Planning Process Task Team in November to probe how MISO could...

MISO will ask FERC to waive a specific generation interconnection queue requirement to assist developers whose projects face construction preparation delays in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The RTO will request a "limited FERC waiver" of its June 25 deadline for developers to demonstrate site control for projects entering...

MISO will allow stakeholders an additional month to file their opinions on the RTO’s draft 2021 transmission planning futures scenarios. The three futures have undergone three sets of alterations as MISO evaluates and responds to stakeholder requests. (See MISO Outlines Electrifying Tx Planning Futures.) The RTO had hoped to finalize...

By Amanda Durish Cook Two MISO planning committees are set to begin discussions on what the RTO can do to break down walls between the annual Transmission Expansion Plan and network upgrade planning for the generation interconnection queue. Speaking during a Coordinated Planning Process Task Team conference call Monday, MISO...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO last week released a set of draft future scenarios that would reflect in its transmission planning process the increasingly dominant role clean energy resources will likely play within the footprint as Midwest states push to decarbonize and electrify vital parts of their economies. The RTO...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO will sharpen its focus on the northern portion of its footprint with two supplemental studies to be included in its 2020 Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP 20) cycle. The RTO has planned special transmission studies for both Michigan and the Minnesota-Wisconsin border, both of which it...