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By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will next month submit two filings with FERC to further refine its new generation interconnection process, while a third filing early next year will seek to facilitate connections for merchant HVDC lines, the RTO said last week. MISO Manager of Resource Interconnection...

By Amanda Durish Cook After a second full review of the 2011 slate of multi-value transmission projects, MISO has concluded that although project costs are rising, benefits still far outpace them. MISO said its multi-value project (MVP) portfolio creates anywhere from $12 billion to $52 billion in net benefits. Total...

By Amanda Durish Cook Stakeholder sectors have eschewed MISO’s suggestion that they apply equal importance to each of the RTO’s four 15-year future scenarios used for next year’s transmission planning, instead giving more weight to the potential for a slow-and-steady evolution of the generation fleet. As a result, MISO’s 2018...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO officials last week presented three proposals related to the implementation of the RTO’s new generator interconnection queue for stakeholder feedback. The proposals — dealing with retaining interconnection rights, changing dispatch modeling and updating a study coordination agreement — are part of MISO’s effort to implement...

By Amanda Durish Cook and Tom Kleckner MISO’s rejection last week of the last possible transmission project resulting from a coordinated study with SPP surprised the latter RTO and left officials wondering whether the neighbors will ever build an interregional project. MISO staff told its Planning Advisory Committee on Aug.

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO will pursue changes to its Transmission Expansion Plan futures weighting process in the 2019 cycle of projects, delaying the initiative by one year. Starting with MTEP 19, equal weighting will be assigned to all four future grid and generation scenarios, effectively eliminating weighting of the...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO has developed a revised approach for providing owners of financially struggling generators more flexibility, saying it will treat Attachment Y filings as suspension notices while allowing owners 18 months to make a final retirement decision. Reddoch | © RTO Insider MISO adviser Joe Reddoch said...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO will conduct a study to identify the challenges of integrating growing volumes of renewable generation in its footprint. The open-ended, multiyear study will be used to “facilitate a broader conversation about renewable energy-driven impacts on the reliability of the electric system,” MISO said. “We trying...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO’s Planning Advisory Committee on Wednesday heard updates on the RTO’s ambitious slate of current planning studies and process improvements. Ghodsian | © RTO Insider Stakeholders got a first look at the preliminary projects resulting from MISO’s yearly market congestion planning study during the July 19...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — Recent market developments are compelling MISO to reconsider how it weighs the relative importance of its 15-year future scenarios designed to inform its 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan, staff said last week. Ellis | © RTO Insider “The final MTEP futures reflect the various...