MISO leadership shed more light on the RTO’s need for a pilot program to estimate load growth on a 20-year horizon after stakeholders asked for details.

MISO and SPP said they will study more than 30 project suggestions — some estimated to cost more than $1 billion apiece — in a four-state area in their pursuit of major, regionally cost-shared transmission projects.

At a time when MISO’s long-term planning is under fire, the Organization of MISO States’ annual meeting featured speakers who vouched for the power of planning.

FERC ruled that MISO must name a point in development and describe how it would consider merchant HVDC lines in its transmission planning.

MISO convened a stakeholder workshop to go over new requirements for demand response resources heading into the 2026/27 planning year.

The $1.6 billion Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue transmission portfolio of SPP and MISO remains in play even though the Department of Energy has reneged on almost a half billion dollars in funding.

MISO is taking load updates and stakeholder suggestions as part of a pilot program to improve its long-term load forecasting.

MISO wants to increase the number of generation projects it may study under its interconnection queue express lane from 10 to 15 per quarter.

MISO said its first crack at long-range transmission planning in the South region likely would take about three years to culminate in potential project recommendations.