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Merchant Battery Project in San Diego Follows Approval of SCE’s Big Storage
San Diego County’s energy grid is in for a major overhaul. A non-utility, 165 megawatt battery project located across nine...
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...
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...
$15B for climate protection, resource adequacy inadequacies
The state grid operator and a federal regulator both point to the fallout from a shortage of supply cushions to...
CAISO Launches Initiative to Better Serve Western Grid, Raises Priority Conflicts
Under recently approved market changes, the California Independent System Operator seeks to double down to protect reliability in the states...
State Utility Regulators Call For 11.5 GW of New Resources by 2026
Two competing California Public Utilities Commission proposals would require utilities, community energy and other provider investments in a combined 11,500...
Agency Heads Tout Power Additions Ahead of Summer, Not all Clean
The chiefs of the California grid operator and energy agencies told lawmakers Tuesday that they have done everything they possibly...
JUICE: Covid Wreaks Havoc on Legislative Hearings for a Second Year
It used to be, pre-pandemic, that spring was the time that numerous bills were vetted and voted on during weekly...
FERC Chair: Texas Outages a “Humanitarian Crisis,” Agency Opens Door to Enviro Justice
The massive days-long power outage caused by frigid weather across Texas and the Midwest, resulting in numerous deaths, is a...
Five Fed Energy Regulators at the Helm
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s first meeting of 2021 was the first time in many months that it operated with...
The Buzz
Three is not a charm for Pacific Gas & Electric. Its problematic 1,150 MW Unit 2 at its Diablo nuclear...
FERC Votes 2-1 Against Interfering in CAISO Market
The California grid operator dodged a bullet Dec. 17 when federal regulators voted down an order that would have required...
FERC Investigates California August Outages
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair Neil Chatterjee announced Thursday that his agency is looking into what caused a shortage of...
Juice: Scrutiny of Demand Response Failures Needed
The analysis of the rolling blackouts is in the works but there was advanced warning of some serious systematic problems,...
Energy Chair Sounds Alarm Over Skyrocketing Electric Bills
The Assembly Utilities & Energy Committee Chair warned that increases in California utility bills are becoming untenable. Chris Holden (D-Pasadena)...
Withered Demand Response Blamed for Rolling Outages
The grid operator, state energy regulators and utilities largely abandoned demand response that would have provided enough electricity to avert...
The Buzz
After 400,000 Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric customers had their power cut...
Speedy Analysis of Rolling Blackouts Ordered
Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the heads of the California Public Utilities Commission, Independent System Operator and California Energy Commission to...
Load Shifts and Less Consumption Avert More Blackouts
Widespread conservation at every level of electricity use, from industry, to households, is credited with lowering otherwise soaring demand on...
High Demand Drives up Power Prices to $1,500 MWh in So Cal
Rolling blackouts that had been forecast were averted Monday and Tuesday thanks to large and small customers who slashed their...