The California PUC ordered an additional 11.5 GW of procurement by mid-decade but backpedaled on a plan to include up to 1,500 MW of fossil fuel generation in the mix.

FERC Chairman Richard Glick says "the time is right for the states, the region’s utilities and other key stakeholders" to form one or more Western RTOs.

FERC approved the transfer of the 169-MW Klamath Hydroelectric Project’s license from PacifiCorp to a group of parties that will decommission the dams.

CAISO issued a grid warning Thursday after generators tripped offline during a record-breaking heat wave across the Southwest and much of California.  “CAISO is forecasting a resources deficiency with all available resources in use or forecasted to be in use for the specified time period,” the ISO said in its warning notice.  The warning was …

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California truck buyers snapped up $84 million in state-offered clean vehicle purchase incentives within hours of their release.

A spate of transmission projects is in the works to move renewables from remote regions of the West to urban load centers.

During a meeting of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners, regulators shared strategies for dealing with heat waves, cold snaps and wildfires.

Green hydrogen could have a big role in decarbonizing the West's energy systems, according to panelists at the annual meeting of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners.

Calif. needs to increase the pace of transmission buildout to reach its 100% clean energy goals by 2045 & retain natural gas for reliability, advocates say.

Berkshire Hathaway Energy to break ground on a California demonstration plant to extract lithium from brine pumped from geothermal wells.