As CEO of the Independent Energy Producers Association, Jan Smutny-Jones has had a front-row seat in the California energy debate since 1987.

California utilities and business groups are opposing a state bill that would increase the amount of publicly available data about electricity consumers.

The growth of distributed energy resources and energy storage in CAISO will require new approaches and better coordination between system operators.

The California Supreme Court declined to review a challenge of the state’s greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program.

California regulators advanced on a plan to study the potential for eliminating the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility.

CAISO last week proposed to eliminate from its Tariff an annual state transmission concept plan that it says is obsolete due to FERC Order 1000.

California lawmakers are concerned that expanding CAISO into a regional grid operator could result in higher electricity bills and job losses.

The California State Senate passed a bill that would require the state's load-serving entities to obtain all their electricity from renewables by 2045.

CAISO stakeholders voiced skepticism about the effectiveness of a new ISO initiative to prevent early retirement of unprofitable generators.

Witness after witness at the FERC technical conference cited California competitive wholesale markets, often in an unflattering context.