BISMARCK — The North Dakota Public Service Commission has joined a handful of states in filing a complaint to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission against the Midcontinent Independent System Operator — a regional grid operator known as MISO that serves much of the Midwest.

The complaint, filed July 30, claims projects under MISO’s $22 billion transmission plan called “Tranche 2.1” were planned using skewed metrics that would cause state residents to “unjustly” pay higher energy costs at the benefit of other states, namely their renewable energy goals — objectives North Dakota does not share.

“Our legislature has made it clear that we do not share those same goals, and so our rate payers here should not be subsidizing those costs,” said Commissioner Jill Kringstad in a Thursday, Aug.

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