MISO said it will hold its quarterly Board Week via conference call only, canceling the New Orleans event as the COVID-19 coronavirus extends its reach.

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.

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.