FERC directed MISO to submit another Order 845 to clear up its process related to technological advancements, service requests and contingent facilities.

Customers of Entergy’s five utility subsidiaries have saved about $1.3 billion since they joined MISO in 2013, the company announced.

MISO’s Reliability Subcommittee will next year examine whether the RTO’s footprint is suffering from an excess of load-modifying resources.

Energy storage systems will inevitably take hold in MISO as costs decline, but the outlook for technologies outside lithium-ion batteries is less certain.

MISO’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the 2019 MISO Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP 19) - a $4 billion portfolio consisting of 480 projects.

MISO’s Advisory Committee has decided not to pursue changes to how the RTO vets and selects its Board of Directors after more than a year of discussion.

MISO’s Board of Directors will remain unchanged heading after the same chairman and three incumbent directors were elected to retain their positions.

MISO avoided maximum generation alerts and events this fall despite dealing with record-breaking temperature swings in its southern footprint.

A new task team is considering sequencing parts of MISO’s transmission planning with network upgrades identified in generator interconnection studies.

MISO stakeholders debated whether the RTO is being too conservative in anticipating industry shifts in its new futures scenarios for transmission planning.