Ameren Illinois argued to FERC that it should have dibs on sections of two competitive long-range transmission projects worth almost $2 billion from MISO’s second portfolio, claiming Illinois’ “first in the field” doctrine is tantamount to a right of first refusal law.

MISO expects to exceed its quarterly project maximum when it begins accepting the first generation project proposals under its interconnection queue express lane.

MISO issued a slew of warning notices and operating instructions — especially in the South region — to help deal with oppressive July heat, forced generation outages and strained transmission.

SPP is celebrating several recent FERC orders that have strengthened its resource adequacy framework that it says will secure a “reliable energy future” for its region.

DOE has terminated its $4.9 billion conditional loan commitment for the long-delayed Grain Belt Express project, saying it is “not critical” for the federal government to support the project.

FERC approved a controversial MISO proposal to create a fast lane for certain reliability-related projects in the RTO’s interconnection queue — just two months after rebuffing an earlier version of the plan.

FERC sided with MISO IMM David Patton, denying a petition from MISO that would have prevented the RTO from reimbursing the Monitor for reviewing the market impact of transmission planning.

MISO has filed with FERC to impose more exacting testing on its demand response resources in an effort to deflect fraud.

MISO is free to keep working toward its 2030 goal of fully incorporating aggregators of distributed energy resources into its markets without an interim participation option.