The Minnesota State Energy Center of Excellence, in partnership with the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), invites K-12 teachers, career and college counselors, work-based learning coordinators, school administrators, and community leaders to an Energy Education for Educators (E3) facility tour in Eagan, Minnesota, on Wednesday, December 9, 2026.
When you turn on the lights or charge your phone, you're counting on the coordination that keeps the grid stable. MISO acts as the "air traffic controller" of the electric power system across 15 U.S. states and the Canadian province of Manitoba. MISO does not own power plants or transmission lines, but its control room operators, engineers, data scientists, and market analysts work 24/7/365 to ensure that the right amount of electricity is generated and routed across high-voltage transmission lines to local utilities reliably and at the lowest possible cost. MISO facilitates more than $53 billion per year in wholesale energy market transactions, and leads long-range transmission planning to modernize the grid.