MISO is poised to recommend its first-ever storage-as-transmission project to ease reliability issues in central Wisconsin.

MISO is nearing its goal of an October FERC filing to solidify its first, limited set of storage-as-transmission assets rules.

MISO is evaluating nine projects to supplement or substitute for the contract path on SPP transmission linking its Midwest and South regions.

Despite being revamped, the Coordinated System Plan process between SPP and MISO will once again be unable to identify any interregional projects.

An ATC effort to improve reliability in Wisconsin could within two years provide MISO with its first-ever storage-as-transmission asset project.

MISO is polishing a draft 2019 Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP) that could end up being one of the RTO’s most expensive buildout packages.

MISO will allow energy storage to compete against all types of transmission projects, scrapping an earlier condition that limited its use.

MISO and stakeholders are hoping to complete policies allowing storage to qualify as transmission for the RTO’s 2019 Transmission Expansion Plan.

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

Increased renewable power integration will shift the peak load in MISO to evening hours, with a spikier but shorter daily loss-of-load risk.