Infocast’s inaugural Midcontinent Clean Energy summit provided panelists a pulpit for critiquing MISO’s interconnection queue setup as it strains under the weight of hundreds of gigawatts intended to further fleet shift and meet load growth.

FERC rejected without prejudice Basin Electric’s proposed cryptocurrency and large load rate schedules, saying it had not demonstrated that such loads pose a greater stranded asset risk.

MISO continues to try to get a bead on load growth and took stakeholder suggestions on how to best monitor sizable future load additions across the footprint.

NERC plans to create a task force to address the reliability risks posed by growing adoption of electric vehicles.

New Jersey last year put an additional 62,426 new EVs on the road, a 68% increase over 2022, which has prompted some advocates to suggest the state is in reach of its goal of having 330,000 EVs in the state by 2025.

New York will be short 1 GW of resources by 2034, driven by increased demand, large load growth and lack of natural gas, according to the preliminary results of NYISO's biennial Reliability Needs Assessment.

MISO’s system is at the mercy of faster interconnections of new resources and retirement delays, executives said in a quarterly address to the board and stakeholders.

Members of MISO’s Advisory Committee emphasized that all players in the footprint need to act swiftly to position themselves for “hyperscale” load growth and the EPA’s new carbon rule.

A relatively low turnout of constructed capacity in recent years could deepen a potential 2.7-GW capacity deficit in summer 2025 to more than 14 GW by summer 2029, MISO and OMS revealed in a five-year projection.