MISO staff continue to keep advisories in effect and compile data on the emergency and subsequent rolling blackouts caused by Hurricane Laura.

MISO said it quickly regained control during its first maximum generation emergency July 7 during a lasting heatwave.

MISO is gradually improving its ability to forecast load in the face of widespread community measures to halt the COVID-19 pandemic.

A mild winter across the Midwest footprint made for an easy January for MISO operators, stakeholders heard at the Reliability Subcommittee meeting.

MISO’s Reliability Subcommittee will next year examine whether the RTO’s footprint is suffering from an excess of load-modifying resources.

MISO is still reviewing FERC’s recent proposal that NERC develop cold weather reliability standards.

MISO is nearing its goal of an October FERC filing to solidify its first, limited set of storage-as-transmission assets rules.

MISO’s effort to improve a key communication system will come too late to smooth summertime emergency procedures, stakeholders complained.

MISO will reconsider its penalty exemption policy for already submitted transmission outages, officials told the Reliability Subcommittee May 2.

In the wake of its Jan. grid emergency, MISO pledged to further study generation cutoffs in extreme temperatures and improvements to its load forecasting.