The Midwest ISO is the NERC Planning Authority for its member footprint, and performs regional planning in accordance with FERC Planning Principles delineated in Order 890. These planning principles provide mechanisms to ensure that the regional planning process is open, transparent, coordinated, includes both reliability and economic planning considerations, and includes mechanisms for equitable cost sharing of expansion costs. The Midwest ISO regional planning process integrates the local planning processes of its member companies into a coordinated regional transmission plan and identifies additional expansions.

The expansion planning process at the Midwest ISO has its objectives of:

	Planning to:
		Provide an efficient and reliable transmission system
		Provide access to diverse energy resources
		Expand trading opportunities
		Enable state and federal energy policy objectives to be met
	Interconnecting new generation and transmission
	Providing transmission service

The planning activities are performed collaboratively between the Midwest ISO planning staff and the planning staffs of the Transmission Owners, including Independent Transmission Companies (ITCs), with regular input from stakeholder groups. Stakeholder forums for discussion of planning issues are:

Planning Advisory Committee (PAC)
Planning Subcommittee (PS)
Sub-regional Planning Meetings (SPMs)

Planning issues are also periodically discussed with various committees of the Organization of Midwest ISO States (OMS).

Order 890 - Planning Information

Attachment FF to the Tariff
Transmission Planning Business Practices Manual (TPBPM)
Planning Contacts
Agreement of Transmission Facilities Owners (TOA)
State or Local Procedural Requirements
  (Applicable to the Planning or Siting of Transmission Facilities by the Transmission Owners)
TO Planning Criteria
MISO PJM TVA Joint Reliability Coordination Agreement
System Support Study Criteria
  (Reliability Criteria used to determine if proposed generation retirement impacts reliability)

As provided for under Appendix B to the Agreement Of Transmission Facilities Owners To Organize The Midwest Independent Transmission System (TOA), the Midwest ISO develops a Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP) designed to ensure the reliability of the Transmission System that is under the operational and planning control of the Midwest ISO. Additionally, the plan is to identify expansion that is critically needed to support the competitive supply of electric power by this system. The Plan is to consider all market perspectives, including demand-side options, generation location, and transmission expansion. The Midwest ISO Board of Directors has provided a Statement of Guiding Principles for the Midwest ISO Transmission Expansion Plans.