Federal regulators on Friday rejected calls by the Midcontinent Independent System Operator and its transmission owners that the grid operator’s independent market monitor be effectively barred from transmission planning oversight.

MISO’s tariff “unambiguously” authorizes MISO’s market monitor to review and analyze actions that affect the competitiveness, economic efficiency and operation of the grid operator’s markets and services — and transmission planning is one of those actions, FERC said in a decision released Friday.

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