Institution of Section 206 Proceeding and Refund Effective Date: Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc., AEP Indiana Michigan Transmission Co., Inc., ALLETE, Inc., et al.

The Global Capacity Alliance (GCA), a nonprofit association, is requesting intervenor status to advocate for the adoption of "Front-of-the-Meter (FTM) Netting" frameworks. They argue that this framework allows large loads (like data centers) to privately mitigate curtailment risks through co-located resources, improving grid visibility and reliability while avoiding ratepayer subsidies.

Lisa Melton, filing as L.M. Marlowe, is a private citizen and independent researcher who supports the Commission's Show Cause Orders by providing technical specifications for grid reliability. She argues for the adoption of a "Frequency-Response Absorption Standard" and a "Coupling-Discrimination Protocol" to ensure that large-load integration does not compromise system stability or unfairly shift costs to ratepayers.

Lisa Melton (filing as L.M. Marlowe), an independent researcher and private citizen, supports the Commission's efforts to address the reliability and cost-allocation challenges posed by large computational loads. She proposes a specific "boundary-verification" framework to ensure grid stability and cost-causation without requiring access to the proprietary internal operations of data centers.

Debra Ann Ostroski, a local citizen, supports the Commission's directive to evaluate alternative transmission technologies and upgrades. She argues that incumbent utilities are avoiding cost-effective upgrades in favor of more expensive new-build projects, citing a specific instance where a utility refused to evaluate reconductoring for a project in Wisconsin.