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By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — After six months of little progress, stakeholders are now asking MISO to consider changing its billing practices to reflect how behind-the-meter resources use the transmission system. But the RTO says it’s still collecting stakeholder input before it develops an official stance on multiple...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO and its stakeholders have agreed on a plan to treat merchant HVDC lines as transmission instead of generation when physically connecting to the RTO’s system. A year in the works, the proposed Tariff revision would subject merchant HVDC lines to MISO’s traditional...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO expects the 15-year future scenarios informing its 2019 Transmission Expansion Plan to look much like those for 2018. Hunziker | © RTO Insider “There haven’t been any significant economic and policy changes. We can tweak and refresh these [2018] futures and adapt...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO is weighing how it can improve its interregional process and joint operating agreement with SPP to make it easier to develop cross-seams projects that have so far remained elusive. The RTOs have conducted two coordinated system plan studies that have failed to...

CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will expedite review of a proposal to interconnect Foxconn’s massive electronics plant planned for southeastern Wisconsin months ahead of the RTO’s usual year-end approval schedule, stakeholders learned Wednesday. The $140 million interconnection project to plug Foxconn’s $10 billion plant into We Energies’ network will move ahead...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO is seeking to more closely harmonize its load forecasting process with the four 15-year future scenarios it creates to support long-term transmission planning, but stakeholders are wary of two ideas being floated by the RTO. Lawhorn | © RTO Insider “I think...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO is close to completing a plan that would give generators three years to submit a decision to retire after signaling their intention, but some stakeholders think the changes could allow unit owners to “game the system” for allocating transmission costs. Joe Reddoch...

By Amanda Durish Cook A MISO task team is slated for retirement after successfully developing several changes to the RTO’s competitive transmission process that were approved by FERC. The Planning Advisory Committee on Tuesday passed a motion recommending that the Steering Committee approve the immediate retirement of the Competitive Transmission...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO is reviewing an expedited project request from American Transmission Co. to connect a massive Foxconn manufacturing plant that would be Wisconsin’s largest power user. ATC’s proposed $140 million Mount Pleasant Tech Interconnection Project is one of the first two expedited review requests for MISO’s 2018...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will delay until next year its proposal to implement a more open-ended approach to its generator retirement process while it looks into possible modeling implications stemming from the change. MISO adviser Joe Reddoch last week said the RTO will file the plan...