MISO unveiled its preliminary 2016 Transmission Expansion Plan at a meeting of the System Planning Committee of the Board of Directors.

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.

Monitor David Patton said that although MISO markets and operations performed well over a warmer-than-usual summer, there is room for improvement.

MISO released a five-year operations business plan last week that calls for new products, technology upgrades and a better-trained workforce.

The MISO external affairs operation wants to reboot its website and is seeking a separate $1 million budget to begin research and development.

Increased natural gas prices and congestion in MISO South boosted energy prices 23% in June, the RTO reported in an Informational Forum.

MISO’s 2016 spending is in line with its budget for the year, Vice President of Finance Jo Biggers told the Board of Directors at the RTO’s Annual Meeting

The MISO Independent Market Monitor, David Patton, added eight new recommendations in his 2015 State of the Market Report.

MISO and its Independent Market Monitor have reconciled their differences and reached a compromise on the RTO's capacity market design.

Independent Market Monitor David Patton asked MISO’s Board of Directors to suspend the RTO’s work on the proposed redesign of its capacity auction.