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The Organization of MISO States continues to signal its grid operator that regulators are ready for dynamic transmission line ratings in the footprint. OMS invited an ERCOT executive to explain the benefits of dynamic line ratings (DLRs) at its board of directors meeting Thursday. ERCOT Senior Director of System Planning...

By Amanda Durish Cook The growth of distributed generation means the MISO grid will become increasingly fraught with planning challenges that require target responses, stakeholders heard Tuesday. "We’re doing our best to adapt, and no one really knows what the future holds, but we can add more visibility into our...

By Amanda Durish Cook Utility regulators in MISO and SPP states are looking to better define their inquiry into the RTOs’ inability to develop interregional projects intended to relieve costly congestion across their seams despite repeated attempts to do so. The effort between the Organization of MISO States (OMS) and...

MISO’s Independent Market Monitor found no major concerns with performance in MISO South over the summer and early fall, but it still wants the RTO to get a handle on short-notice and unreported generation outages in the region. Potomac Economics’ Robert Sinclair delivered a MISO South operations report at the...

By Amanda Durish Cook The Organization of MISO States will examine the revolving door policies of its member states after its president departed his position earlier this month to take a job with a wind energy trade association. The move comes in response to Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Eric Skrmetta’s...

By Amanda Durish Cook NEW ORLEANS — At the Organization of MISO States’ annual meeting last week, where MISO-SPP seams needs took center stage, North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak set the tone by opening a panel with a pun. "We’re bursting at the seams," she said, then drummed...

By Amanda Durish Cook NEW ORLEANS — MISO executives and some of its state regulators last week provided sharply contrasting visions of the grid’s move away from fossil fuels and toward renewables. MISO President of Market Development Strategy Richard Doying arrived at the Organization of MISO States’ annual meeting in...

NEW ORLEANS — The outgoing president of the Organization of MISO States used his final address to the MISO community to once again press the RTO to develop a long-term transmission plan. "We came together to encourage MISO to come together and study long-term transmission needs," OMS President Daniel Hall...

SPP staff told the Seams Steering Committee on Wednesday that MISO is pursuing a number of transmission projects to help it escape from under a settlement agreement that governs the connection between its two regions. MISO said in July that it is evaluating nine projects to supplement or substitute for...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO is home to more than 4.5 GW of unregistered distributed energy resources, much of it for nonresidential use, the Organization of MISO States estimates. The figure comes from OMS’ annual DER survey, which was presented to MISO stakeholders at a special workshop...