MISO’s repackaged proposal to establish a temporary fast track in its interconnection queue resulted in a familiar division among MISO stakeholders, with vertically integrated utilities in favor and clean energy organizations opposed.

The MISO Independent Market Monitor insisted to FERC that MISO’s own rules allow him to assess transmission. Market monitors of other grid operators backed him up.

MISO conceded to its Board of Directors that it should have done more to convey the danger it perceived ahead of the late spring load-shedding event in Greater New Orleans.

MISO has put a second proposal for a fast-tracked interconnection queue lane in front of FERC, a mere three weeks after the commission rejected the RTO’s initial proposal.

FERC decided it’s practical for MISO to have an almost three-year extension of the commission’s directive to implement ambient adjusted transmission line ratings.

The U.S. Department of Energy is preparing a case-by-case review of all the agency’s financial assistance awards under the Biden administration that it says could have “significant ramifications” for current and prospective recipients.

Consumers Energy filed a complaint with FERC against MISO seeking compensation for keeping open the J.H. Campbell coal plant this summer as ordered by the U.S. Department of Energy.

MISO has drafted a joint transmission planning agreement with neighbor Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. that is premised on how they currently coordinate.