MISO released draft future scenarios that would reflect the increasingly dominant role clean energy resources will play in its planning process.

MISO will focus on the northern portion of its footprint with two supplemental studies to be included in its 2020 Transmission Expansion Plan cycle.

MISO’s analysis into the Minnesota-Wisconsin export interface constraint could inspire similar studies to solve non-thermal operating limits.

MISO’s 2019 Transmission Expansion Plan will advance to the Board of Directors without any recommended changes tacked on by the Planning Advisory Committee.

MISO’s grid will be only minimally susceptible to the impacts of possible water scarcity in the future, in part because of increased adoption of renewables.

MISO released a proposal that would replace its 15-year futures scenarios with predictions that assume more renewable generation and carbon-cutting.

MISO’s Planning Advisory Committee will consider several motions before it votes on whether to send the RTO’s $4 billion MTEP 19 to its board for approval.

MISO plans to file its first storage-as-transmission asset ruleset, despite complaints from members the proposed provisions limit resource ownership to TOs.

MISO will take another crack at getting FERC approval for Tariff revisions intended to thin out and speed up its generator interconnection queue.

MISO is toying with the idea of foreshortening its MTEP 20 process in order to maximize time spent on the 2021 cycle of transmission projects.