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Marcus Hawkins: “MISO used to be a smaller footprint that stopped in the boot…”

Featuring: Marcus Hawkins, Wisconsin Public Service Commission

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Electric Wire, Ep. 39 - Marcus Hawkins discusses his role leading the Organization of MISO States

Published | Video Starts at 30:22

Could you tell us what that is and what, what any, what the history is there and any implications of it now? Yeah, certainly. So going back to the origin of MISO that we were talking about earlier, MISO used to be a smaller footprint that stopped in the boot heel of Missouri. So it didn't used to go down to Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. So it was, I believe around 2010, 2011, what's known as the Entergy states or the Southern states that are in MISO were looking to join an rto. (30:22–30:29)

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Asserts that MISO's original geographic coverage was limited to the boot heel of Missouri.

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