MISO hopes to have a new demand-side management tool fully operational by July for its members to manage their load-modifying resource fleets.

Within two decades, increasing load from electrification will have MISO operating on a winter peaking model, RTO staff said.

MISO says it has 146 GW of capacity to cover a projected 122 GW summer peak. However, staff said emergency declarations could be made.

MISO planners stressed the importance of long-range transmission planning at a recent stakeholders' workshop, but some representatives were skeptical.

Experts appearing at the Missouri Energy Initiative’s virtual Midwest Energy Policy Series discussed infrastructure, cybersecurity and FERC Order 2222.

Xcel Energy’s push to add nearly 10 GW of renewable energy will hinge largely on long-haul transmission projects, CEO Ben Fowke said.

The need for uniform EV charging standards and the limits of state efforts to price carbon highlighted FERC’s technical conference on electrification.

Mich. regulators will assess a 2019 MISO transmission project to determine whether it should remain in the grid operator’s 2019 Transmission Expansion Plan.

MISO is experiencing minimal COVID-19 impacts on load and demand is essentially back to normal, an RTO official said last week.

NextEra Energy said its acquisition of GridLiance furthers its strategy to be “North America's leading competitive transmission provider.”