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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.
The Energy Imbalance Market nominating committee is recommending that Kristine Schmidt be reappointed to the market’s Governing Body.
California officials are reconsidering retail choice, two decades after a deregulation drive that faltered in the Western Energy Crisis of 2000/01.
Western state utility commissioners expressed support for providing the CAISO EIM Governing Body with increased authority.
Participants in a forum created by CAISO to discuss EIM issues and want to move quickly to complete an evaluation that will shape the group’s role.
CAISO management is proposing to amend the EIM charter to explicitly provide the market’s Governing Body with a voice in any future governance changes.
PacifiCorp has released a 20-year plan that commits to increased investment in renewable resources and energy efficiency while reducing reliance on coal.
While the executive order signed by Trump rolling back efforts to combat climate change upset some, RTO officials are largely shrugging their shoulders.
CAISO is seeking to create a new transmission access charge area for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
A coalition of environmental, renewable energy and business groups called on California officials to reignite CAISO’s effort to expand its operations.
CAISO has signed a transmission agreement with the Bonneville Power Administration designed to facilitate Energy Imbalance Market transfers.
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