FERC asked MISO to remove or defend its requirement that distribution utilities and load-serving entities report real-time grid injections and withdrawals to be compliant with Order 841.

MISO said it quickly regained control during its first maximum generation emergency July 7 during a lasting heatwave.

MISO and SPP regulators are close to asking the RTOs for improvements to transmission operations on their seam as their market monitors wind down a study.

MISO won FERC approval to create an 11th stakeholder sector for hard-to-categorize members despite some misgivings about the equity of the new arrangement.

FERC rejected transmission customers’ complaint over MISO’s seven-year-old cost allocation plan for baseline reliability projects.

The third time’s a charm for MISO getting FERC approval of its sweeping, cost-allocation overhaul for large economic transmission projects.

MISO reiterated it can likely reliably operate the grid with a 50% renewable energy mix but warned certain variables could send energy prices soaring.

If one business consultant’s vision proves correct, MISO stakeholders learned, future neighborhoods will be self-contained developments with their own power sources.

The MISO Advisory Committee adopted the first set of standards for creating and joining stakeholder sectors and discussed the coordination of transmission planning.

FERC approved SOO Green’s request to charge negotiated rates on its 2,100-MW transmission line that would deliver renewable energy from MISO to PJM.