MISO has trimmed its annual budget, now expecting to spend a little less than $431 million in 2026, down from nearly $450 million.

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.

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.

MISO opened another review of a second project from its first long-range transmission plan portfolio, prompted again by construction cost overruns.

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.

A MISO board committee advanced 432 projects from transmission owners at a cost of almost $12.3 billion under the RTO’s 2025 Transmission Expansion Plan.

MISO will add Bonneville Power Administration’s former COO to its Board of Directors and welcome back two term-limited directors in 2026 after collecting membership votes.

MISO is poised to retain two of its term-limited board members in 2026 while adding an executive from a federal power marketing agency.

MISO’s Board of Directors has asked the RTO’s Independent Market Monitor to better explain its $10.6 million 2026 budget before it agrees to the amount.