Panelists at the GCPA conference linked long queue waits, major transmission expansion, reliability worries and the inexorable takeover of renewable energy.

MISO and SPP said DOE has signaled that grid operators and their state commissions can move forward with a full application for funding from the GRIP program.

MISO said it experienced a “complete loss of monitoring or control capability” at its control center on March 1, setting off short-lived energy imbalances.

DERs are still a couple years away from actually participating at the wholesale level as FERC works on RTO and ISO compliance with Order 2222.

MISO’s attempt to justify a new resource accreditation process gave way to heated debate over how to best alleviate the footprint’s reliability challenges.

MISO says it’s leaning toward a simplified method to handle the market participation of combination battery storage and renewable energy resources.

MISO continues to defend its decision to export gigawatts of power to its neighbors during the expansive, late December winter storm.

MISO said a spring under typical demand and generation outages shouldn’t prove much trouble.

State legislatures across MISO are undertaking a flurry of activity on rights of first refusal legislation as major transmission planning surges.

FERC shut down a pair of requests for exemptions from a resource availability cutoff under MISO’s new availability-based accreditation method.