Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• 2011 Franz Edelman Winner - In April 2011, MISO was named winner of the 2011 Franz Edelman Award, an international accolade for achieving excellence in operations research that benefits society. The award recognizes MISO's outstanding achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences for implementing wholesale energy and ancillary services markets. The award from INFORMS, an internationally acclaimed scientific and academic society, recognizes extraordinary innovation in applying operations research to make a major impact on an organization and society.
• NERC Examples of Excellence – In May 2007, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) awarded MISO six “Examples of Excellence” for its real-time operations and practices that maintain the reliability of the interconnected bulk electric system. NERC also gave MISO 13 positive observations for its commitment to employee growth and professional development.

• Computerworld Honors – MISO received two awards for IT innovation from Computerworld Magazine. In June 2007, the organization received a Computerworld honor for its implementation of an advance data storage system at its headquarters in Carmel, IN. The magazine also named Jim Schinski, former Vice President and Chief Information Officer for MISO, as one of the Premier 100 IT leaders in 2008.

• Wind Integration Honors – The Utility Wind Integration Group(UWIG) honored MISO in March 2008 for its use of wind energy resources. MISO was recognized for incorporating economic-based planning for energy resources, as opposed to more traditional reliability-based capacity planning. It was also recognized for implementing wind energy resources into its MTEP plan.

• 2011 Compliance Award - [https://www.misoenergy.org/AboutUs/MediaCenter/PressReleases/Pages/MISOWinsNationalComplianceAward.aspx The Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) named MISO a recipient of the 2011 Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) Achievement Award for MISO’s comprehensive compliance framework and technology solution, each known as the Compliance Model and Compliance Platform.

The 2011 GRC Achievement Awards were presented May 24, 2011, at Compliance Week’s 5th Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. MISO was one of five winners including Adecco, Constellation Energy, Humana, and Visa. A committee of OCEG's Fellows reviewed and selected winners for the GRC Achievement Award. For more information, see MISO's winning presentation.