Stakeholders told MISO they need a better explanation of the every-other-day capacity advisories issued for MISO South, which have become customary since the beginning of summer.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a FERC order allowing MISO to end reactive power compensation, though the decision has no bearing on the nationwide discontinuation of payments for reactive power in Order 904.

MISO says it needs more time to finish meting out refunds, nearly a dozen years after a complaint was first raised to lower its transmission owners’ base return on equity.

MISO has slashed earlier renewable energy estimates and boosted natural gas contributions in its transmission planning futures in a rethink brought on by the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

MISO is poised to retain two of its term-limited board members in 2026 while adding an executive from a federal power marketing agency.

MISO’s Board of Directors has asked the RTO’s Independent Market Monitor to better explain its $10.6 million 2026 budget before it agrees to the amount.

MISO said 2025 was the most demanding summer since 2012, though it steered the grid with only a single maximum generation event.

MISO’s generator interconnection queue has fallen to 215 GW as developers cut back on projects in response to the federal phaseout of renewable energy tax incentives, RTO leadership said.

MISO will start evaluating its South region for long-term transmission needs in 2026, beginning with Louisiana, the RTO announced before its Board of Directors.

MISO’s Independent Market Monitor said the recently uncovered, eight-year-old repeat error in the RTO’s capacity market that caused a $280 million impact in this year’s auction alone is unfortunate but insisted the resulting prices were efficient.