Coal plant self-commitments saddled MISO customers with $350 million in unnecessary costs in 2018, according to analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The 2020 MISO Transmission Expansion Plan contains 510 proposed projects at a combined $4.06 billion, the priciest since the RTO's 2011 MVP portfolio.

MISO is calling on expertise from its local balancing authorities to help improve load forecasting, RTO engineers told stakeholders.

FERC reversed its earlier stance that would have required nonpublic utility transmission owners in MISO and SPP to explicitly commit to providing refunds.

FERC lifted MISO transmission owners’ base return on equity from 9.88% to 10.02% and allowed them to add a third calculation model into the mix.

Utility executives urged MISO to prepare for the imminent change sweeping the grid with the increased adoption of renewable and distributed resources.

MISO will not open its doors to stakeholders or visitors for the rest of the year as the coronavirus pandemic runs its course, the RTO said.

MISO floated ideas on how it could better synchronize the studies supporting its annual transmission planning and generator interconnection queue processes.

MISO is examining additional measures to shave time customers spend in the generation interconnection queue by focusing on the definitive planning phase.

MISO is ready to begin testing some of the capabilities of its new market platform as the effort to develop the system enters its fourth year.