EL26-70-000 · 2026-07-20 · Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.

MISO reports on resource adequacy and large-load proposals

Read topic-matched comments in EL26-70

Topics in the text: Reliability and curtailment · Connecting load and generation · Retail and wholesale authority

What the document says

State authority · PDF pp. 2–7

Who plans for the next five years?

MISO combines forecasts from load-serving entities with an annual survey of resource owners; state and retail regulators retain responsibility for determining required adequacy.

LSEs are the entities responsible for providing demand forecasts PDF p. 4

What MISO’s regional report leaves out

Organization of MISO States · Direct response

OMS said the report does not fully reflect state proceedings on resource planning, retail rates and utility approvals because MISO is not a party to those proceedings. It wanted regional planning to complement, rather than displace, state responsibility for adequacy.

PDF pp. 1–3

Interconnection · PDF pp. 7–9

Studying projects across grid boundaries

MISO reports that a delayed neighboring-system study need not stop a generator’s application from advancing.

allowing Interconnection Customers to move forward even where an affected system study is delayed PDF p. 9

Co-location · PDF pp. 9–14

Generation that serves only the adjacent load

The proposed zero-injection agreement would give paired generation and load a study path without granting delivery rights on the wider system. MISO later filed the agreement in ER26-3552.

will be co-located with load and will not inject energy further onto the Transmission System PDF p. 10

Source sections

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