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IMCO
Idaho Power can continue to sell power at market-based rates after it acquired more than 200 MW in resources 2023 and 2024, FERC ruled.
Seattle City Light
Sixteen entities have committed to participating in the Western Resource Adequacy Program’s first financially “binding” season covering winter 2027/28, the Western Power Pool said.
Grid United
Puget Sound Energy became the latest utility to stake a claim in the North Plains Connector, a 420-mile transmission line from central North Dakota to southeast Montana.
The Brattle Group
BPA would earn $65 million in annual benefits from joining CAISO’s EDAM but face $83 million in increased yearly costs from participating in SPP’s Markets+, according to a new Brattle study.
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NERC's Reliability and Security Committee approved changes to its charter and endorsed a standard authorization request aimed at inverter-based resources at this week's meeting.
WECC
More than two dozen Western electricity sector entities sent a letter to SPP expressing support for the continued development of the RTO’s Markets+, which is competing for participants with CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.
West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative
The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative has secured commitments of financial support from 24 utilities and other electricity-sector organizations and expects that list to grow.
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The team revising NERC’s cold weather standard has more work ahead after industry respondents put the freeze on their latest proposed revisions with a negative segment-weighted vote of more than 56%.
CAISO
CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market yielded members $418.82 million in economic benefits during the first three months of 2023, a first-quarter record.
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The push for decarbonization will transform Washington from a key exporter of electricity to a net importer by mid-century, a state agency has found.
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