MISO spent much of 2019 preparing for a massive shift to renewable resources — and 2020 will herald much the same, RTO executives say.

MISO’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the 2019 MISO Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP 19) - a $4 billion portfolio consisting of 480 projects.

A new task team is considering sequencing parts of MISO’s transmission planning with network upgrades identified in generator interconnection studies.

MISO stakeholders debated whether the RTO is being too conservative in anticipating industry shifts in its new futures scenarios for transmission planning.

MISO renewable proponents want to revamp a transmission planning process they say inhibits the development of generation in the western region.

MISO and PJM are close to their first major interregional transmission project after identifying a joint effort worthy of the designation.

Clean energy advocates are asking MISO to make changes to its transmission planning to ensure the region can continue a shift toward renewable resources.

A growing number of stakeholders are prodding MISO to create a task team to improve transmission planning assumptions.

MISO plans to file its first storage-as-transmission asset ruleset, despite complaints from members the proposed provisions limit resource ownership to TOs.

MISO staff are done assembling the RTO’s 2019 Transmission Expansion Plan, presenting a nearly $4 billion draft package to the Board of Directors.