MISO’s Advisory Committee said it will defer to MISO as the final arbiter over whether a new company or organization is entitled to join a certain sector.

MISO’s Advisory Committee voted to recommend allowing the RTO’s newly created Affiliate sector voting rights in certain committees.

The MISO Advisory Committee discussed possible design elements of the RTO’s sector setup after FERC said the new sector is only temporary.

MISO won FERC approval to create an 11th stakeholder sector for hard-to-categorize members despite some misgivings about the equity of the new arrangement.

The MISO Advisory Committee adopted the first set of standards for creating and joining stakeholder sectors and discussed the coordination of transmission planning.

MISO’s Board of Directors cleared the Advisory Committee to create an 11th stakeholder sector while instructing the committee to overhaul its sector design.

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