Expanding transmission can reduce electricity costs for consumers, but only if the buildout uses consumer welfare as the North Star and ignores narrow political or business interests, say Travis Fisher and Nick Loris.

A trade group representing multiple MISO power producers has lodged a complaint against retroactive pricing revisions in MISO’s 2025/26 capacity auction, joining Pelican Power in calling the repricing unlawful.

MISO ended its 10-year run allowing energy efficiency in its capacity market, as FERC allowed the change to take effect.

A presenter from ReliabilityFirst said the regional entity expects a normal level of risk this winter, indicating a low chance of energy shortfalls.

Texas regulators have approved two more applications under the Texas Energy Fund’s completion-bonus program, making the generation resources eligible for more than $100 million in grants.

MISO has trimmed its annual budget, now expecting to spend a little less than $431 million in 2026, down from nearly $450 million.

MISO and its Monitor tracked a rise in energy consumption in fall 2025 and reviewed some operational rough patches, while the RTO explained why its machine-learning risk predictor remains a work in progress.

MISO members don’t doubt that large loads will turn up at the beginning of the next decade and are occupied with how the industry can make sure ratepayers don’t subsidize supersized customers.

MISO opened another review of a second project from its first long-range transmission plan portfolio, prompted again by construction cost overruns.

Louisiana-based power generator Pelican Power is the first to register a complaint over MISO’s yearslong miscalculation in its capacity auctions in an effort to stop the RTO’s retroactive pricing corrections.