FERC affirmed an administrative law judge’s decision to assign a Minnesota city’s portion of a 345-kV line to Northern States Power’s joint pricing zone.

MISO unveiled its annual Transmission Expansion Plan, consisting of 434 transmission projects valued at $3 billion.

MISO said it is reviewing stakeholder proposals to improve load forecasts and plan hourly energy delivery on its evolving system.

MISO is probing what eligibility requirements it should establish before allowing energy storage resources to function as transmission assets.

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.