The dedicated MISO market platform replacement team will work this year to ensure the existing system can stay afloat during the time it will take to build the new one.

Resilience was in the spotlight after MISO stakeholders selected the subject as their quarterly “hot topic” industry discussion with the RTO’s Board of Directors.

MISO Board of Directors Chairman Michael Curran paid tribute to Eugene Zeltmann, a former board member who passed away in late February.

While MISO is under budget so far in 2018, the RTO’s financial staff is forecasting a slight overspend by year-end.

MISO will require its managers to undergo training on handling harassment complaints amid heightened awareness over sexual misconduct in the workplace.

MISO’s Board of Directors unanimously approved MTEP 17, including 353 new transmission projects valued at $2.6 billion.

The MISO Board of Directors learned about the recent discovery that PJM had been committing two market-to-market (M2M) errors.

The MISO board of directors stepped in to order a plan of succession for the RTO’s executive leadership, while also approving its requested 2018 budget.

MISO will roll out a new public website this winter and begin a $130 million project to replace its aging market platform.

A MISO Board of Directors committee has advanced MTEP 17, a $2.7 billion transmission development package that includes 353 new projects.