At a time when MISO’s long-term planning is under fire, the Organization of MISO States’ annual meeting featured speakers who vouched for the power of planning.

FERC ruled that MISO must name a point in development and describe how it would consider merchant HVDC lines in its transmission planning.

Stakeholders asked MISO to consider putting a hold on processing generation project proposals entering the interconnection queue in 2025 in order to focus on the bottlenecks formed from the 2021 and 2022 queue classes.

SPP plans to continue working the Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue’s portfolio of five 345-kV projects on its seam with MISO, despite the U.S. Department of Energy’s threat to pull $464 million in previously granted funds.

MISO convened a stakeholder workshop to go over new requirements for demand response resources heading into the 2026/27 planning year.

The $1.6 billion Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue transmission portfolio of SPP and MISO remains in play even though the Department of Energy has reneged on almost a half billion dollars in funding.

MISO is taking load updates and stakeholder suggestions as part of a pilot program to improve its long-term load forecasting.

MISO wants to increase the number of generation projects it may study under its interconnection queue express lane from 10 to 15 per quarter.

MISO said its first crack at long-range transmission planning in the South region likely would take about three years to culminate in potential project recommendations.