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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.
FERC’s enforcement policy is unlikely to shift significantly despite the arrival of four new commissioners, a panel of present and former FERC staffers said. But some think the commission should provide more clarity in defining violations.
CAISO launched a sweeping set of updates to its interconnection policies, an annual process made increasingly complex by a rapidly changing resource mix.
CAISO has kicked off an effort to implement major changes in the way it procures backstop generation needed to maintain grid reliability.
The Energy Imbalance Market Governing Body rejected the CAISO move to change how members of the panel are nominated.
President Trump’s new tariff on imported solar cells and modules will slash domestic solar output and wipe out tens of thousands of jobs, a major solar trade industry association said.
CAISO is delving into the next phase of a years-long effort to integrate more energy storage and demand response into its markets.
The number of state officials and utilities announcing actions because of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act signed by President Trump last month keeps growing.
Local officials filed a scathing lawsuit alleging corruption at the state’s main water agency and lawmakers called for FERC to delay the Oroville Dam’s relicensing.
FERC issued decisions related to CAISO’s resource adequacy program and transmission service in the Pacific Northwest.
CAISO has been studying its recent move to become a reliability coordinator (RC) since early last year, and ISO officials have extensively reviewed the proposal, it said.
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