With a second capacity auction using a sloped demand curve under its belt, MISO and its Monitor said the approach is having a stabilizing effect on supply and pricing.

Members called on MISO to apply the mandates of FERC’s Order 1920 to its interregional transmission planning.

MISO again said summertime could produce a slim chance for a more than 130-GW demand peak in July but that it has enough buffer to avoid power outages, even if it’s unable to evade an emergency declaration.

A Midwestern Governors Association webinar on affordability touched on the anger ratepayers are expressing over ever-increasing energy bills.

Xcel Energy says a data center agreement with Google in the Upper Midwest will provide a model for large load development that benefits customers and communities.

DTE Energy repeated a message now common in the power industry: Its data center power agreements will set the stage for other ratepayers to benefit, at no cost to them.

FERC has put owners of northern Michigan dams on notice about safety concerns following historic floods that laid bare erosion issues, a broken turbine, leaks, stuck gates, debris accumulation and AWOL personnel.

MISO said it will begin embedding automated study software into the later stages of its generator interconnection queue.

MISO summer capacity prices remained at a premium after the RTO’s 2026/27 auction cleared at roughly $400/MW-day across the footprint, but still about $200 below 2025.

MISO’s proposal to allow zero-injection interconnection agreements to span multiple points of interconnection has stakeholders raising eyebrows and questioning how large loads and generation can be connected to the system at different points without using transmission.