MISO discussed what resource availability and need solutions it will focus on next year, including improvements to the Planning Resource Auction.

FERC approved Cleco’s $1 billion acquisition of eight NRG Energy generation assets in MISO South along with the plants' wholesale contracts.

FERC ordered a closer look into whether We Energies accurately estimated customer savings stemming from the retirement of the Pleasant Prairie plant.

MISO officials are still hashing out how they can best model and analyze energy storage-as- transmission in the RTO’s transmission planning process.

Several MISO stakeholders are criticizing Tariff filings the RTO plans to make by the end of the year to free up an additional 5 to 10 GW of capacity.

RTOs and ISOs filed tariff revisions to provide energy storage resources more opportunities to participate in markets in compliance with FERC Order 841.

MISO’s 10 sectors are split over whether state regulators should be subjected to a one-year moratorium before they’re eligible to serve on the RTO’s board.

MISO’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan in its entirety despite stakeholder objections.

The MISO Board of Directors approved allocating $20.5 million for another year of the RTO’s ongoing effort to replace its market platform.

MISO stakeholders said impact to customers and solid business cases should factor prominently in any new regional transmission package.