MISO said it will explore whether to alter its long-term planning models to factor in expectations for an increased number of outages.

MISO will spend much of 2019 working on how it can prevent the increasingly frequent emergency conditions it experienced in 2018.

MISO officials are still hashing out how they can best model and analyze energy storage-as- transmission in the RTO’s transmission planning process.

MISO’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan in its entirety despite stakeholder objections.

MISO stakeholders said impact to customers and solid business cases should factor prominently in any new regional transmission package.

MISO staff are seeking to advance the RTO’s full 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan despite stakeholder objections to two projects.

A MISO workshop on energy storage as transmission made clear how much the technology is blurring the once clear lines between generation and transmission.

MISO’s Planning Advisory Committee will vote through Oct. 26 on whether to move most of the RTO’s $3.3 billion 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan forward.

MISO proposed bringing the three major players in its load forecasting together to coordinate on predictions for long-term transmission planning.

MISO floated a relatively simple straw proposal for treating energy storage as a reliability asset in its annual transmission plan.