MISO is proposing to eschew a total subregional cost allocation in favor of a half-regional, half local zone cost sharing plan.

An Iowa Utilities Board member said regulators are determining how the state Supreme Court’s temporary reversal of ROFR legislation will affect incumbent TOs.

Clean energy advocates and a transmission developer asked MISO’s Board of Directors for stronger transmission plans and a facility blueprint for MISO South.

Two ITC staffers insist that MISO’s 2016 market efficiency project is proof that rights of first refusal laws benefit the grid and ratepayers.

Panelists at the GCPA conference linked long queue waits, major transmission expansion, reliability worries and the inexorable takeover of renewable energy.

MISO planners emphasized that its hypothetical map of projects is not what a final second portfolio could look like under its long-range transmission planning.

MISO has kicked off its second request for proposals process coming out of its $10 billion long-range transmission portfolio.

MISO made several maneuvers in 2022 to position itself for a majority-renewable portfolio while attempting to take the sting out of a rising capacity deficit.

FERC continues to sanction MISO’s separate-but-equal postage stamp rate that is divided between its Midwest and South regions for major transmission buildout.

MISO gave its board a first look at its contentious concept map of line ideas under the second phase of its long-range transmission plan.