CAISO Department of Market Monitoring (DMM)
A new CAISO paper lays out a series of challenges around how to improve participation of demand response and distributed energy resources in the ISO's day-ahead and real-time markets.
The California Department of Water Resources and other parties have asked CAISO to restart a transmission access charge initiative that was put on hold in 2018 due to the development of the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.
FERC granted CAISO's request to remove the sunset date on the Western Energy Imbalance Market Assistance Energy Transfer feature, which has been used by more than 10 of the market’s balancing area authorities in recent years.
CAISO's Department of Market Monitoring has asked the ISO to re-evaluate its intertie scheduling proposal for the Extended Day-Ahead Market due to potential impacts on market participants.
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.
CAISO’s Market Monitor cautioned that a new resource adequacy proposal could lead to strategic gaming in the ISO’s market when capacity supplies are tight on the grid.
CAISO is finalizing a set of changes to its resource adequacy program, with plans to vote on three proposals at an upcoming Board of Governors meeting,
Western Energy Imbalance Market prices increased sharply in the second quarter of 2025 compared with the same period in 2024, mostly due to higher natural gas prices at Western hubs.
CAISO’s Market Monitor is concerned about potential gaming practices and inefficient bidding behavior in the ISO’s bid cost recovery process for battery storage resources.
California’s fastest-growing energy resource — battery storage — is earning less net revenue each year, while capacity is forecast to continue to boom.
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