Stakeholders and regulators concerned about extreme weather and clogged interconnection queues are also encouraged by FERC’s proposed rulemakings on the issues.

MISO members reopened the idea that the grid operator enact resilience criteria within its footprint.

MISO and SPP prepared stakeholders last week for the possibility they may come up empty-handed in their hunt for smaller interregional transmission upgrades.

FERC approved an agreement that will keep an Ameren Missouri coal plant online past its planned retirement date to maintain MISO grid reliability.

FERC last week affirmed the Henderson, Ky., municipal utility’s status as a transmission owner in the MISO region.

MISO remains committed to beefing up and making information from its generation retirement studies more public.

MISO expects to easily navigate normal winter conditions with its firm supply but said a worst-case winter storm in January could exhaust emergency reserves.

Clean energy and consumer advocates questioned whether MISO planners are sufficiently exploring alternatives to the projects its transmission owners submit.

MISO broadcast to stakeholders that it’s ready for a sloped demand curve in its capacity auction.

MISO assured stakeholders that it has the means to study the 170 GW worth of new generation interconnection requests that officially queued up last month.