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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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FERC is moving to rescind the West-wide wholesale electricity price cap mechanism it instituted in 2002 in response to widespread price manipulation during the Western energy crisis of 2000/01.
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The author behind the bill that would allow CAISO to relinquish market governance to an independent RO has delayed a hearing after several organizations withdrew support for the proposed legislation.
Bonneville Power Administration
BPA said it is revising future power rates by removing millions of dollars of costs associated with a Biden administration agreement with Northwest tribes aimed at restoring salmon habitat and potentially breaching dams on the Snake River.
PGE
Portland General Electric’s need for new resources by 2030 has grown by 16%, largely because of a decreased capacity contribution from batteries, particularly in winter.
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The Bonneville Power Administration unveiled its proposals for overhauling its transmission planning, with help from the industry.
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A group of environmental organizations sued the Bonneville Power Administration in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals over the agency’s decision to join SPP’s Markets+ instead of CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.
CAISO
CAISO is working on an initiative to improve the visibility of distributed battery storage resources on the grid, especially for when they are needed for resource adequacy.
WPP
Even in its nonbinding phase, the Western Power Pool’s Western Resource Adequacy Program has been a valuable tool for working toward resource adequacy goals, program participants said.
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Although one of the aims of day-ahead markets in the West is to fix a fragmented transmission landscape, some islanded entities will have a tough time navigating seams issues likely to arise as markets take shape, analysts at Aurora Energy Research said during a webinar.
PNM
Public Service Company of New Mexico made it official: The utility signed an implementation agreement to begin participating in CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market in fall 2027.
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