LS Power’s Republic Transmission won FERC approval for incentives to construct MISO’s first competitively bid transmission project.

MISO said it stands ready to study certain ancillary services to help the U.S. Department of Energy develop its understanding of grid resilience.

MISO said it expects to have plenty of reserve capacity to cover upcoming winter operations, even as it announced a review of an emergency declaration.

FERC approved a joint MISO-PJM proposal to create a new category of small interregional transmission projects intended to address historical congestion.

Stakeholder sectors have eschewed MISO’s suggestion that they apply equal weight to the RTO’s four 15-year future scenarios used for next year’s planning.

After a second full review of the 2011 slate of multi-value transmission projects, MISO has concluded that benefits outpace rising project costs.

FERC opened settlement proceedings to address a two-state complaint against an Entergy subsidiary’s proposed return on equity for nuclear power sales to four other company affiliates.

MISO planners continue to sift through the largest batch of interconnection queue applications in a decade while still working out lingering details.

MISO is seeking stakeholder guidance on how to forecast the probable locations of future renewable, storage and distributed energy resources (DER).

Entergy said it will continue to operate the Palisades nuclear plant until early 2022 under the terms of its original agreement with Consumers Energy.