FERC granted a MISO Midwest-wide cost allocation for Northern Indiana Public Service Co.’s and CenterPoint Energy’s coal plants kept online by order of the U.S. Department of Energy.

MISO announced it will reassign multimillion-dollar substation work in Wisconsin to American Transmission Co. in order to meet a sped-up construction timeline for data center load.

MISO said its most recent financial estimates show operating costs continuing to creep up through 2030, making $500 million annual operating budgets the norm and forcing it to collect more from members.

Public interest organizations have taken their challenge of the Department of Energy’s emergency orders keeping two Indiana coal plants operating past their planned retirement dates to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

MISO announced a third, 8-GW cycle of generation projects to enter its fast-tracked interconnection process, its largest cluster yet.

MISO and SPP put forth two potential, 500-kV joint transmission portfolios valued at either $1.3 billion or $3.6 billion to beef up their transfer capability.

Kentucky lawmakers are working to overhaul the Public Service Commission in what they say is an effort to combat rising utility rates, while the governor characterized it as political maneuvering.

MISO opened a third review of a long-range transmission project, this time because three substations are needed more than five years ahead of schedule to accommodate new data center load.

A consortium led by BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners and Swedish private equity firm EQT AB agreed to buy AES Corp. in a deal valued at about $33.4 billion including debt.

MISO said its modeling estimates show it could be in for anywhere from 413 GW to 501 GW of installed capacity in its system by 2045.