The Mississippi Public Service Commission is using an audit of MISO membership to question whether Entergy Mississippi should remain among the RTO’s membership, attracting blunt criticism from several renewable energy organizations.

MISO staff have characterized LMR use as accessing the capacity that members make available to them, de-emphasizing emergency protocols.

Xcel is accelerating its transition away from fossil-fueled resources by proposing to add about 10 GW of renewables in Minnesota and Colorado.

SPP, ERCOT and MISO are all taking action this week to meet high demand as sweltering summer temperatures kick in.

MISO revealed that it will use the cost allocation devised for 2011's Multi-Value Project portfolio for its long-term transmission plan.

DTE Energy's CEO indicated that the utility is looking at how to accelerate coal plant closures during a second quarter earnings call.

FERC has upheld its order that MISO and SPP fix their overlapping congestion charges on pseudo-ties despite a rehearing request from MISO.

Major transmission construction will help the grid tolerate increasingly severe weather, panelists said at a recent ACORE webinar.

State commission staff from MISO South questioned MISO's long-range transmission plan at an Entergy State Regional Committee meeting.

The postage-stamp cost allocation method for long-term transmission projects might be coming back in vogue in MISO.