About MISO
The MISO manages one of the world's largest energy and operating reserves markets using security-constrained economic dispatch of generation. The Midwest Energy and Operating Reserves Market includes a Day-Ahead Market, a Real-Time Market, and a Financial Transmission Rights (FTR) Market. These markets are operated and settled separately. The MISO was approved as the nation's first RTO in 2001. Membership in the organization is voluntary. The non-profit organization was founded in 1998, is governed by an independent Board of Directors, and is headquartered in Carmel, Indiana with an operations center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
MISO's scale of committed operations:
- 114, 516 MW peak load (reliability, set August, 2010)
- 159,000 MW generation capacity (reliability region)
- 57,453 miles of transmission
- $17.4 billion in installed assets
- 35 transmission owners, including four stand-alone transmission owners
- 100 non-transmission owning members
- 750,000 square miles of service territory in all or parts of 13 states and 1 Canadian province
For more information about MISO, please refer to https://www.midwestiso.org.