MISO said it will approve New Orleans’ request to make the city a cost allocation zone but is deferring action on an interregional cost-sharing plan by TOs.

MISO announced plans to update its interconnection queue procedures to allow multiple projects to interconnect at one point on the system.

FERC approved the MISO plan to cut some duplicate analyses from the first phase of its generation interconnection queue.

MISO floated a relatively simple straw proposal for treating energy storage as a reliability asset in its annual transmission plan.

A new proposal would require MISO load-serving entities to develop a 20-year base load forecast that includes predictions for non-coincident peaks.

FERC on Tuesday approved MISO's plan to replace its retirement notification process with a more general three-year generation suspension period.

After earlier forecasts of a small year-end overage, MISO is now on track to be $1.2 million under its $265 million expected budget in December.

FERC affirmed an administrative law judge’s decision to assign a Minnesota city’s portion of a 345-kV line to Northern States Power’s joint pricing zone.

The MISO Energy Storage Task Force will get a new lease on life: as an expert advisory panel on increasingly sophisticated storage issues.

MISO’s Advisory Committee appeared split over whether the RTO should assume greater authority in granting planned outages.