Stakeholder sectors have eschewed MISO’s suggestion that they apply equal weight to the RTO’s four 15-year future scenarios used for next year’s planning.

After a second full review of the 2011 slate of multi-value transmission projects, MISO has concluded that benefits outpace rising project costs.

MISO is seeking stakeholder guidance on how to forecast the probable locations of future renewable, storage and distributed energy resources (DER).

MISO will release results from its regional transmission overlay study by December, nearly two years ahead of schedule.

MISO will resume discussion on possible cost recovery for participant-funded transmission projects under 345 kV.

MISO officials presented three proposals related to the implementation of the RTO’s new generator interconnection queue for stakeholder feedback.

MISO will pursue changes to its Transmission Expansion Plan futures weighting process in the 2019 cycle of projects.

Great River Energy is urging MISO to account for the effects of inverter-based generation in the RTO’s transmission planning studies.

MISO’s Steering Committee declined to reconsider a proposal that would allow funders of transmission upgrades for lines under 345 kV to recover costs.

MISO will begin using its Transmission Expansion Plan dispatch modeling in interconnection queue studies beginning Aug. 1.