Amanda Durish Cook
MISO Correspondent
Amanda has worked in newspapers for over a decade, first contributing to community papers in Michigan before working as a reporter and editor for The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Fla. Amanda is an alumna of the University of Michigan and is back in the Midwest where she belongs. She resides in Indianapolis, Ind. with her husband Scott and dog Ichabod. You can find her camping, canoeing, skiing and making her way through the titles in Oprah’s Book Club.

Recent Articles
MISO Tempers 2026 Budget Plan
MISO has trimmed its annual budget, now expecting to spend a little less than $431 million in 2026, down from nearly $450 million.
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MISO Usage, Outages Up in Fall 2025
MISO and its Monitor tracked a rise in energy consumption in fall 2025 and reviewed some operational rough patches, while the RTO explained why its machine-learning risk predictor remains a work in progress.
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MISO Members: Large Loads are Certain, Require Rules Against Cross-subsidization
MISO members don’t doubt that large loads will turn up at the beginning of the next decade and are occupied with how the industry can make sure ratepayers don’t subsidize supersized customers.
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MISO Launches 2nd Review of Long-range Tx Project for Cost Overruns
MISO opened another review of a second project from its first long-range transmission plan portfolio, prompted again by construction cost overruns.
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Louisiana Gen Co. First to Lodge Complaint Over MISO Auction Error and Price Corrections
Louisiana-based power generator Pelican Power is the first to register a complaint over MISO’s yearslong miscalculation in its capacity auctions in an effort to stop the RTO’s retroactive pricing corrections.
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