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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...
Community Energy Confronts Exit Fee Price Volatility
California community aggregators have deployed large amounts of wind, geothermal, solar, storage and microgrid technology, advancing California’s and community energy's...
Distributed Batteries Reach 700+ MW, But Much More Needed
Battery systems installed at California homes and businesses now total 721 megawatts, with roughly 70% percent of them, about 42,000...
$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...
Totally Different States, Same Problem: Resource Adequacy
In what could be a meaningful coincidence, the California grid operator approved costly reliability ‘must run’ contracts Sept 23 on...
5,000 MW Shortage Possible Next Summer
If drought and extreme heat continue into next year, the shortfall on the California grid from high summer heat could...
CEC Waives Permit for Another Diesel Backup at Data Center
The California Energy Commission exempted yet another very large diesel backup system from its permit certification process, putting the issue...