FERC approved Cleco’s $1 billion acquisition of eight NRG Energy generation assets in MISO South along with the plants' wholesale contracts.

MISO is considering how to respond to transmission owners’ adoption of dynamic line ratings, acknowledging changes would be necessary with widespread use.

FERC ordered a closer look into whether We Energies accurately estimated customer savings stemming from the retirement of the Pleasant Prairie plant.

MISO officials are still hashing out how they can best model and analyze energy storage-as- transmission in the RTO’s transmission planning process.

Several MISO stakeholders are criticizing Tariff filings the RTO plans to make by the end of the year to free up an additional 5 to 10 GW of capacity.

MISO’s 10 sectors are split over whether state regulators should be subjected to a one-year moratorium before they’re eligible to serve on the RTO’s board.

MISO’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan in its entirety despite stakeholder objections.

The MISO Board of Directors approved allocating $20.5 million for another year of the RTO’s ongoing effort to replace its market platform.

MISO stakeholders said impact to customers and solid business cases should factor prominently in any new regional transmission package.

Stakeholders are skeptical of MISO's proposed Tariff revisions imposing stricter outage rules and load-modifying resource requirements.