At their quarterly meetup, MISO members largely agreed there won’t be an easy path to achieving decarbonization affordably for customers.

MISO continues to try to get a bead on load growth and took stakeholder suggestions on how to best monitor sizable future load additions across the footprint.

Members of MISO’s Advisory Committee emphasized that all players in the footprint need to act swiftly to position themselves for “hyperscale” load growth and the EPA’s new carbon rule.

MISO members pondered at Board Week over how quickly the full impact of Order 2222 will be felt across the footprint.

Outgoing Organization of MISO States Executive Director Marcus Hawkins appeared before the RTO’s Advisory Committee for a final time before taking on a new role as a Wisconsin PSC commissioner.

MISO’s quarterly Board Week explored the reasons behind its growing number of generation projects that have the stamp of approval to connect to the system but remain unbuilt.

MISO reported a later completion of its market platform replacement and added two new members while members installed new Advisory Committee leadership.

MISO members agreed that the future generation mix is arriving faster than previously thought during a “mind the gap” Advisory Committee discussion Dec. 7.

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

MISO, its Monitor and members debated the best course to implementing ambient adjusted line ratings during a Sept. 15 Advisory Committee discussion.