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Under the current rules, new load registration and new generation interconnection processes are separate. Developers of large industrial loads are increasingly desiring to co-locate with renewable generators.  Many large, energy-intensive applications such as data centers, green hydrogen, solar panel manufacturers, and silicone chip foundries are submitting similar requests to co-locate directly with renewable generation. The loads often interconnect on the low-voltage side of a collector substation. We ask MISO and stakeholders to consider several aspects of the issue: 1) Transmission Planning and Generator Interconnection (simultaneous evaluation of load and generator); 2) Market Registration (ability for resources to inject when excess generation is available and load to withdraw when needed and receive dispatch instructions that recognize co-located nature of load and resource); and 3) Settlements (separate financial settlement of resources and load). 

By direction of the Steering Committee, this issue is split in order to first address planning/generator interconnection aspects. The issue was adopted by the Planning Advisory Committee (PAC) on April 24, 2024. Once this segment is resolved, the remaining Market Participation portions of the issue will be taken up in other forums as re-assigned by the Steering Committeee.