2025
Upcoming Events and Webinars
Spring Quarterly Meeting
May 1-2
One Kansas City Place
1200 Main St.
Kansas City, MO 64105
Nearby Hotel Options:
Hotel Phillips Kansas City, Curio Collection by Hilton
106 W 12th St.
Phone: 816-221-7000
Website
Hotel Kansas City – The Unbound Collection by Hyatt
1228 Baltimore Ave.
Phone: 816-685-1228
Website
Kansas City Marriott Downtown
200 W 12th St.
Phone: 816-421-6800
Website
Crown Plaza Kansas City
1301 Wyandotte St.
Phone: 816-474-6664
Website
Hotel Indigo
101 W 11th St.
Phone: 816-283-8000
Website
Ambassador Hotel
1111 Grand Blvd.
Phone: 816-298-7700
Website
Events and Webinars
Webinar on FERC Order 1920A
January 14 [Virtual]
Quarterly MID-GRID Meeting
January 28 [Virtual]
2024
Webinars
NERC Interregional Transfer Capacity
November 18 [Virtual]
Grid Strategies RE NTP Study
November 7 [Virtual]
U.S. DOE NTP Study Webinar
October 30 [Virtual]
Events
MGA Quarterly MID-GRID 20235 In-Person Meeting
October 2-3 – Chicago, Illinois
Speaker Biographies
Attendee List
Optional Tour Itinerary
Presentation: Cici Vu, DNV Energy Insights USA
Building for the Future Through Electric Regional
Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation
July 9 [Virtual]
Speaker Bios
FERC Presentation on Order No. 1920
Questions for FERC, please contact Rob Thormeyer at [email protected]
MGA MID-GRID & MGA-OMS Transmission Summit
April 29-30 – Minnesota
Presentations:
MID-GRID 2035 2.0 Quarterly Meeting
January 25 [Virtual]
Presentation: Melissa Burchard U.S. DOE GDO
2023
Events
MID-GRID 2035 2.0 Quarterly Meeting
September 27-28 – Little Rock – SPP
Agenda
Speaker Bios
Attendee List
Presentations and Handouts
Affordability and Resilience – How to Appropriately Value Interregional Transfer Capacity
- Lauren Azar
- Ryan Deyoe, Telos Energy
- Natasha Henderson, SPP
- Hannes Pfeifenberger, Brattle Group
- The Operational and Market Benefits of HVDC to System Operators
Highlighting State Efforts to Leverage Federal Funding
- Melissa Birchard, US DOE
- Catherine Reed, NASEO
- Lynn Retz, KCC
- Claire Virgasaa, North Dakota Transmission Authority
NERC Review of Evolving Grid Reliability Needs
Generation Fleet Change – Timing, Magnitude, and Grid
Impacts
MID-GRID 2035 2.0 Virtual Quarterly Meeting
June 29, 2023 – Virtual
Agenda
Recording
Presentation
Priorities Document
MID-GRID 2035 2.0 Kick-Off Meeting
April 17-18, 2023 – Chicago
Agenda
Speaker Bios
Registration List
Speaker Presentations
2020-2022
Work Products, Events & Resources
Work Product
- MGA Vision Statement
- Transmission Planning Primer
- Transmission Planning Brief
- MGA Letter to RTO CEOs
Toolkit
- Minnesota PUC Letter of Support for American Jobs Act
- Seams White Paper for OMS & RSC Seams Liason Committee
- Brattle Group Study – Cost Savings Offered by Competition in Electric Transmission
- Building New Transmission -Experience To-Date Does Not Support Expanding Solicitations
- 3 serious failures in transmission planning and how to fix them
Public Educational Sessions
10/18/2022 – US DOE – Grid Deployment Office
10/4/2022 – Converter Stations
9/20/2022 – FERC Update
8/23/2022 – Advanced Conductors
5/10/2022 – MGA Webinar: Overview of NARUC Mini Guides on RTO Engagement and Transmission Siting
4/20/2022 – Solutions Accelerating Siting and Deployment of Beneficial Transmission Solutions
2/24/2022 – What’s Up with JTIQ
8/17/2021 – The FERC ANOPR and What it Means for the Midwest
4/20/2021 – Maximizing the Local Benefits from New Transmission Lines
2/23/2021 – Generation Fleet Change Pathways and Cost Implications
10/20/2020 – Corporate Buyer Perspective Workshop
4/23/2020 – Public Kick-Off Meeting
1/24/2020 – Grid Reliability 101 Webinar
1/16/2020 – Transmission Planning 101 Webinar
MID-GRID Sponsors
The MGA would like to thank the following sponsors of MID-GRID 2035. Should your organization be interested in being a sponsor, please contact Jeff Ewart via email at [email protected].