CAISO/WEIM

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.
CPUC
NextEra Settles CRR Complaint Against CAISO
FERC approved a settlement that will grant a NextEra Energy subsidiary congestion revenue rights that CAISO denied the company in 2015.
California Energy Commission
Can Calif. Go All Green Without a Western RTO?
California may be able to meet its carbon goal by 2045, but it’s going to be more difficult and more expensive without a Western RTO, advocates contend.
CAISO
CAISO Modifies CRR Plan, Seeks Quick Approval
CAISO is asking FERC for expedited review of a revised proposal to protect electricity ratepayers from funding shortfalls in its CRR market.
California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services
CAISO Seeks to Extend Aliso Canyon Rules
CAISO is seeking to extend measures that deal with the continuing threat to reliability posed by limited operations at the Aliso Canyon.
USDA
CAISO Finalizes Draft TAC Proposal
CAISO moved closer this week to updating its transmission access charge (TAC) structure to include new rules about how to measure transmission usage.
City of Lake Elsinore
FERC Tells LEAPS to Get in Line
FERC rejected a request by developers of a proposed pumped storage project for cost-based rate recovery as a transmission asset in CAISO.
CAISO Department of Market Monitoring
FERC Rejects CAISO Congestion Revenue Scaling Plan
FERC approved CAISO’s plan to reduce the capacity available in its congestion revenue rights auctions but rejected a proposal to cut CRR payments.
U.S. Air Force
UPDATED: Does California Need a Catastrophic Fire Fund?
California SB 901 may not be an adequate solution to the bigger wildfires that appear to be the state’s new normal, some skeptics contend.
Overheard at Transmission Summit West
Transmission planners voiced their thoughts about an increasingly decentralized grid at Infocast’s 10th Annual Transmission Summit West.
WECC
Western RC Transition ‘Hot Topic’ at WECC Meeting
WECC focused on the issues and challenges surrounding the balkanization of reliability coordination in the Western Interconnection at its annual meeting.

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