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CAISO Regional Market Design Details Emerge, Big Questions Remain
The newly reinitiated stakeholder process to build a Western Day-Ahead Market took two steps forward that shows the California Independent...
California Grid Operator Aims for 2024 Regional Day-Ahead Market
The California-led real-time Energy Imbalance Market has delivered significant savings to Western power providers, but other regions’ market ambitions are...
Out-of-State Utilities Join Forces to Consider Western Market
Updated Oct. 13 A dozen utilities from Puget Sound to Colorado have announced they’re exploring the formation of a western-wide...
Report Points to Bureaucratic, Legal and Supply Chain Obstacles to Clean Grid
Staff at the California Public Utilities Commission and Energy Commission are required by law and executive order to ratchet down...
CAISO Board Focuses on Near Term Needs and Long Term Ambitions
The California grid operator is keeping close tabs on climate crisis-driven wildfires and outage uncertainties while looking down the road...
Grid Operator Reform with Big Implications for a Western Energy Market
The California Independent System Operator leaders enabled a critical governance change that gives new powers to the Energy Imbalance Market...
Shorts
The grid operator's Western Energy Imbalance Market officially added four community-owned utilities and a federal power agency March 25. The...
The Buzz
Lawmakers express diametric views as to which electricity resources are reliable and affordable during a U.S. Senate Energy Committee hearing....
Regional Imbalance Market Board Acts to Avert Summer Outages
The Western Energy Imbalance Market board March 10 approved three changes to help avoid a repeat of last August’s blackouts...
News Roundup: CA is #1 in EVs, PG&E Sells Wireless Access to Towers for $1B
Updated Feb. 3 California has done more than any other state to advance vehicle electrification, according to the American Council...
JUICE: CAISO Board’s First Woman Chair Focuses on Renewable Integration
The California Independent System Operator is charged with operating 80% of the state’s massive electric highway. The first board of...
CAISO’s Energy Imbalance Market Has Taken Big Steps but Faces Competition
California’s energy imbalance market had a good 2020. It passed $1 billion in total benefits, added two powerhouse participants, and...
Grid Operator’s Budget Inches Downward
The California Independent System Operator’s draft 2021 budget—ranging from salary and contractor costs to market income—is its lowest since 2006,...
CAISO Executive Redo Launched
The new chief of the California Independent System Operator, Elliot Mainzer, announced an executive reorganization Nov. 6. It switches around...
News Roundup: Diablo Goes Down during Flex Alert
Updated Oct. 16 Temperatures at the Southern California coast and in parts of northern California are projected to be 15-25...
Shorts
PG&E and Tesla began construction on a 182.5 MW battery project at Moss Landing in Monterey County, the utility announced...
Less Demand and Cleaner Options Spell Lower 2019 Costs for CAISO
The California Independent System Operator saw a whopping 17% reduction in overall wholesale electricity market costs in 2019 compared to...
CAISO Chief Laments Lack of Regional Market & Supply Imbalance
Falling sun and wind resources occurring as demand rises, particularly in the evenings, has created a worsening supply gap. It...
Western Real Time Market Produces $270M in Savings
Participants of the grid operator’s expanding real-time Western Energy Imbalance Market reaped additional economic and environmental benefits. Those include gross...
Shorts
Updated Oct. 31. Southern California Edison will take the heat Nov. 13 in Fontana over public power safety shutoffs at...