MISO Planning Advisory Committee (PAC)

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By Amanda Durish Cook The MISO Planning Advisory Committee will vote by email on a DTE Energy proposal to broaden the scope of the RTO’s effort to create new rules allowing storage projects to solve transmission needs. DTE’s motion proposes that stakeholders and the PAC recommend that MISO include a...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO will take another crack at identifying a project that could provide an alternative to the constrained transmission path linking its North and South regions. In its previous attempt to uncover an economic alternative to its transmission use agreement with SPP for the North-South interface, MISO...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO is considering moving ahead with a plan to streamline its report detailing the projects in its annual Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP) beginning with this year’s. Project Manager Sandy Boegeman on Wednesday told MISO’s Planning Advisory Committee that the RTO is considering removing brief histories of...

By Amanda Durish Cook NEW ORLEANS — MISO’s somewhat befuddled Steering Committee on Wednesday instructed the Planning Advisory Committee to revisit the possibility of non-transmission owners operating storage-as-transmission assets (SATA). In developing draft SATA rules, MISO had decided only registered transmission owners should own first-generation SATA to avoid introducing complexities around...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO last week released draft Tariff language that would allow energy storage resources to compete for projects in the RTO’s annual Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP). The provision would allow storage-as-transmission assets (SATA) to pursue consideration in all classes of RTO transmission projects, including baseline reliability, market...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO plans to revamp its annual Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP) report to emphasize the justifications and analyses behind the list of proposed projects while removing some planning process narratives. Director of Strategy Jesse Moser said Wednesday that the streamlined MTEP report will focus more sharply on...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will allow energy storage to compete against all types of transmission projects, scrapping an earlier condition that it initially only be accepted as an alternative to transmission reliability projects. Under MISO’s first storage as a transmission asset (SATA) proposal, which the RTO...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO Under New Load Forecasting Method CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will this year draw on three sets of contributors to create its load forecast for 2020 transmission planning. The RTO said last week it has moved ahead with a proposal to have Purdue University’s State Utility...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO will soon file a proposal with FERC to relieve its overfilled generation queue by implementing more stringent site control requirements and increasing the milestone payments imposed on project owners. | © RTO Insider The proposal is down to a final review from the Planning Advisory...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO’s Planning Advisory Committee will vote through Friday on whether to convert the longstanding Interconnection Process Task Force (IPTF) into a working group in an effort to save it from retirement. The RTO last month proposed to end the task force and fold its discussions and...