MISO board approves $3.3 bil in transmission projects

摘要

To cope with an increasingly diversified, decentralized generation fleet, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator board on Thursday approved $3.3 billion in transmission enhancement projects, including two interregional projects with PJM Interconnection. MISO Transmission Expansion Plan 18 comprised 442 new projects, and the 10 largest include five in the MISO South region of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas and five in the North and Central regions, which includes all or parts of 10 Midwest and northern Great Plains states.