A collective of consumer groups has invoked a recent letter from the U.S. Department of Justice in an attempt to get FERC to act on its three-year-old complaint against MISO deferring to state right of first refusal laws in regional planning.

A band of incumbent utilities has collected case studies that they say demonstrate the need to instate or maintain the right of first refusal for the good of grid expansion.

MISO wades into the battle over who will build the Iowa portions of its long-range transmission projects after a court found the state’s right of first refusal law unconstitutional.

An Iowa court has formally struck down the state’s right of first refusal law, driving uncertainty for $2.6 billion worth of MISO's long-range transmission projects.

An Iowa Utilities Board member said regulators are determining how the state Supreme Court’s temporary reversal of ROFR legislation will affect incumbent TOs.

FERC's technical conference highlighted gaps between the commission, state regulators and RTOs in their oversight of transmission planning.

The Midwest has become ground zero for the future of transmission policy because of incumbent TOs' stifling control, R Street Institute's Devin Hartman says.

The Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission project slated to cut through southwestern Wisconsin has been put on hold.

While Midwest states do not have energy storage targets or mandates, the storage market will grow there through integrated resource planning.

An agricultural hub in Iowa is the site of a battery storage project that the Energy Department thinks could become a template for other towns.