The MISO Board of Directors’ Nominating Committee has settled on three candidates to fill the three seats up for election for terms that begin in January and expire in September.

The MISO forward capacity auction proposal and the broader issue of resource adequacy were the “hot topic” at last week’s Advisory Committee discussion.

A group of MISO transmission owners has petitioned Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan for more time to draft a petition challenging FERC's Order 1000.

MISO and SPP are moving ahead on a joint transmission study focusing on seven projects, staff told stakeholders at a Interregional Planning Stakeholder Advisory Committee meeting.

Wisconsin’s large manufacturers are asking state regulators to grant them retail choice, warning that high power prices may otherwise cripple the state’s economic growth.

MISO told the Market Subcommittee that it plans to file a waiver with FERC on its winter energy offer cap policy while it waits for the commission to work out whether a soft cap will replace the current $1,000/MWh hard cap.

All energy storage resources wanting to qualify as capacity should register as behind-the-meter for the 2017/18 planning year, MISO said at last week’s two-day Resource Adequacy Subcommittee meeting.

MISO officials said last week they are still finalizing their forward auction proposal for competitive areas, but the changes won’t be significant and won’t affect a late fall FERC filing.

MISO told its Advisory Committee that they've narrowed candidates for the Board of Directors to six, while the Resource Adequacy Subcommittee is seeking the approval of just two priorities for the year.

At the MISO Informational Forum, stakeholders were briefed by a special agent from the FBI about cybersecurity threats against the grid.