CAISO has narrowed the scope of a generator interconnection plan that seeks to protect smaller transmission owners from disproportionately high costs.

The CAISO internal Monitor is proposing new enforcement measures to address market power concerns in the Energy Imbalance Market.

The Western Energy Imbalance Market governing body voted to implement procedures to ensure market participants have input into CAISO policy initiatives.

The CAISO internal Market Monitor reported that the program for auctioning off congestion revenue rights suffers from inherent design flaws.

FERC approved the CAISO plan to extend the temporary Tariff provisions the ISO implemented after last year’s closure of Aliso Canyon.

Actions taken in the wake of the closure of the San Onofre nuclear plant ultimately helped California address the Aliso Canyon shut down.

Tucson Electric could become the latest Western utility to lose authorization to sell electricity at market-based rates within its balancing authority area.

Renewable energy made gains in some states, but other state election results were not as favorable or as expected.

FERC has approved CAISO’s plan to fine-tune its procedure for preventing generators from exercising local market power during transmission constraints.

Stakeholders voiced concerns about CAISO’s annual process for determining which “discretionary” policy initiatives the ISO should pursue in the coming year.