MISO’s Advisory Committee will vote next month whether to recommend the Board of Directors split up the Environmental and Other Stakeholder Groups sector.

Energy storage systems will inevitably take hold in MISO as costs decline, but the outlook for technologies outside lithium-ion batteries is less certain.

MISO’s Advisory Committee has decided not to pursue changes to how the RTO vets and selects its Board of Directors after more than a year of discussion.

Environmental advocates are stepping up calls for MISO to split up its Environmental and Other Stakeholder Groups sector to provide a more singular voice.

A special task team is suggesting that MISO revise its Board of Directors selection rules to give stakeholders a more consequential voice in board makeup.

MISO stakeholders signaled they’re not yet ready to embrace creating an 11th sector in the RTO’s Advisory Committee to accommodate hard-to-pin-down members.

The rate of MISO’s grid transformation is distressingly slow and unbelievably quick, members said in a session directed at guiding future market decisions.

MISO’s Advisory Committee is considering creating a new miscellaneous sector in order to give its Environmental Sector a more singular voice.

A new MISO Board Qualification Task Team is seeking stakeholder suggestions to improve the process for choosing the RTO’s board members.

MISO’s Advisory Committee is exploring whether to extend a 1-yr. “cooling-off” period to state regulators before they serve on the RTO’s Board of Directors.