The newly reinitiated stakeholder process to build a Western Day-Ahead Market took two steps forward that shows the California Independent...
The California-led real-time Energy Imbalance Market has delivered significant savings to Western power providers, but other regions’ market ambitions are...
Updated Oct. 13 A dozen utilities from Puget Sound to Colorado have announced they’re exploring the formation of a western-wide...
Staff at the California Public Utilities Commission and Energy Commission are required by law and executive order to ratchet down...
The California grid operator is keeping close tabs on climate crisis-driven wildfires and outage uncertainties while looking down the road...
The California Independent System Operator leaders enabled a critical governance change that gives new powers to the Energy Imbalance Market...
The grid operator's Western Energy Imbalance Market officially added four community-owned utilities and a federal power agency March 25. The...
Lawmakers express diametric views as to which electricity resources are reliable and affordable during a U.S. Senate Energy Committee hearing....
The Western Energy Imbalance Market board March 10 approved three changes to help avoid a repeat of last August’s blackouts...
Updated Feb. 3 California has done more than any other state to advance vehicle electrification, according to the American Council...
The California Independent System Operator is charged with operating 80% of the state’s massive electric highway. The first board of...
California’s energy imbalance market had a good 2020. It passed $1 billion in total benefits, added two powerhouse participants, and...
The California Independent System Operator’s draft 2021 budget—ranging from salary and contractor costs to market income—is its lowest since 2006,...
The new chief of the California Independent System Operator, Elliot Mainzer, announced an executive reorganization Nov. 6. It switches around...
Updated Oct. 16 Temperatures at the Southern California coast and in parts of northern California are projected to be 15-25...
PG&E and Tesla began construction on a 182.5 MW battery project at Moss Landing in Monterey County, the utility announced...
The California Independent System Operator saw a whopping 17% reduction in overall wholesale electricity market costs in 2019 compared to...
Falling sun and wind resources occurring as demand rises, particularly in the evenings, has created a worsening supply gap. It...
Participants of the grid operator’s expanding real-time Western Energy Imbalance Market reaped additional economic and environmental benefits. Those include gross...
Updated Oct. 31. Southern California Edison will take the heat Nov. 13 in Fontana over public power safety shutoffs at...