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The California Independent System Operator serves about 80% of California's electricity demand, including the service areas of the state's three investor-owned utilities. It also operates the Western Energy Imbalance Market, an interstate real-time market covering territory that accounts for 80% of the load in the Western Interconnection.
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The California PUC wants CAISO to come up with a way to pause settlements of certain congestion revenue allocations in the ISO’s upcoming Extended Day-Ahead Market if participants begin to game the market through extensive self-scheduling.
Northwest Power and Conservation Council
Data centers bring new regional planning challenges for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s upcoming power plan, the organization said during a recent meeting.
Upsite Technologies
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has appointed a new committee to help address the effects of the rapid growth of new data centers in the state — with a particular focus on the electricity system.
City of Seattle
Seattle City Light presented its proposal for the Bonneville Power Administration’s overhaul of the transmission planning process, saying the agency should offer interim conditional firm service to most developers in the 61-GW transmission service queue.
Microsoft
The California Public Utility Commission approved construction of a set of transmission infrastructure projects to support a 90-MW data center owned by Microsoft, but questions remain about whether the upgrades will increase or decrease ratepayer costs.
Washington Dept. of Ecology
Washington’s attorney general and a coalition of environmental groups have mounted separate challenges to DOE's December decision to order TransAlta to continue operating the state’s last coal-fired plant for three months beyond its scheduled retirement.
Idaho Power
FERC staff recommended the commission relicense three Idaho Power-owned dams that have been operating under annual licenses since 2005, finding the company’s proposed measures adequately mitigate the environmental impact of the dams.
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The Bonneville Power Administration is starting a new pilot program to decrease balancing reserve capacity requirements by connecting new generation facilities to the grid.
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Some of the Bonneville Power Administration’s proposals aimed at resuming transmission planning processes risk pushing study timelines to the point where the agency’s customers could run afoul of clean energy targets in Washington and Oregon, stakeholders say.
Black Hills Energy
Black Hills Energy completed construction on a 260-mile, $350 million transmission expansion project that will interconnect electric systems in Wyoming and South Dakota, while expanding the footprint of CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market.
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