MISO has called off a proposal to rely on data from its load-serving entities to compile its own long-term load forecast.

MISO is seeking stakeholder input for its conceptual study to determine how to incorporate transmission outages into its economic planning models.

Increased renewable power integration will shift the peak load in MISO to evening hours, with a spikier but shorter daily loss-of-load risk.

MISO and PJM will decide by May 18 whether to undertake a coordinated system plan study this year, the RTOs said.

MISO Advisory Committee members criticized the RTO’s plan to revamp load forecasting using projections from load-serving entities.

Applied Energy Group produced 20-year estimates of MISO’s future demand response, energy efficiency and distributed generation.

MISO is surveying how to get more information from load-serving entities to create a more detailed load forecast for transmission planning.

MISO is moving ahead with a proposal to largely recycle last year’s 15-year transmission planning predictions for use in its 2019 Transmission Expansion Plan.

MISO expects the 15-year future scenarios informing its 2019 Transmission Expansion Plan to look much like those for 2018.

The MISO Board of Directors met via conference call to grant belated approval of the RTO’s second competitive transmission project from MTEP 17.