FERC can make large load flexibility a reality through the implementation of the Department of Energy’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on large load interconnections, according to a new Nicholas Institute policy paper.

A group of nonprofits suing BPA said its decision to join SPP’s Markets+ instead of CAISO’s EDAM “violated clear mandates from Congress.”

The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee will hire an executive staffing firm and is considering funding sources as it advances to the next phases of building the independent organization that will govern CAISO’s energy markets.

PacifiCorp joins other utilities leaving the Western Power Pool’s Western Resource Adequacy Program just before the deadline to commit to the program’s first binding phase.

In an ongoing high-stakes analysis, CAISO has determined that transactions between PacifiCorp’s two balancing authority areas can “materially” affect parallel flows on certain CAISO transmission constraints.

The artificial intelligence industry and power industry are working together to develop the first “power-flexible AI factory” at a 96-MW facility in Manassas, Va.

MISO said even a 109-GW peak this winter shouldn’t prove problematic, though a more probable scenario would deliver a 103-GW peak in January.

The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee Co-Chair Pam Sporborg said the stakeholder process of the new regional organization that will oversee CAISO’s energy markets is an evolution of the ISO’s Regional Issues Forum.

Panelists at S&P Global’s Nodal Trader Conference discussed the impact of demand growth and uncertain load forecasts on markets.