MISO Plans for a Clean Energy Future

How should grid operators plan for the shift to a clean energy future? Traditional transmission planning is based on historical experience that is extrapolated into the future. In this type of planning, yesterday is the best predicator of tomorrow. While such planning may have made sense in the past, it doesn’t work when the electric industry is experiencing rapid transformation and when clean energy resources such as wind and solar are quickly becoming the cheapest and overwhelmingly most attractive generation resources. While the shift to a clean energy economy provides many exciting opportunities for increased competition and lower costs to consumers, it also provides new technological challenges for grid operators, including significant changes in where and how much transmission is needed to operate a clean energy grid.The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) is…

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