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CAISO Issues ‘Expedited’ Plan for Allocating EDAM Congestion Revenues
CAISO released a draft final proposal detailing how EDAM will allocate congestion revenues in circumstances when a transmission constraint in one BAA produces “parallel” flows in a neighboring BAA also participating in the market.
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CAISO Pauses Study of New Market Run Proposal for Gas Resources

CAISO sidelined a proposal to provide an additional market run for gas resources due to a lack of information on the subject and a need for operational experience with the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.

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Reliability Projects Dominate CAISO’s $4.8B Draft Transmission Plan
CAISO's 2024/25 draft transmission plan recommends 31 new projects at an estimated cost of $4.8 billion, slanting heavily toward reliability needs.
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WEIM Q4 Prices Down on Lower Gas Costs, CAISO DMM Finds
CAISO's Department of Market Monitoring found lower natural gas prices helped drive down energy prices in the WEIM in the fourth quarter of 2024.
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WEIM Experience, Reliability Benefit Drove EDAM Decision, BANC Says
For the Balancing Authority of Northern California, a positive experience with CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market was a key factor in the decision to also join the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.
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Fast-paced Effort will Address EDAM Congestion Revenue Issue
CAISO launched an “expedited” initiative to address stakeholder concerns about how EDAM will allocate congestion revenues when a transmission constraint in one balancing authority area causes congestion in a neighboring BAA.
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Stakeholders Call for Further IBR Standard Revisions
Industry stakeholders called for a number of revisions to NERC's proposed inverter-based resource ride-through standards, mostly involving the exemption process for legacy inverters.
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Utilities Ask FERC to Toss Local Tx Planning Complaint; Others Support It
FERC was flooded with comments on a wide-ranging complaint filed by electricity consumers seeking increased oversight of local transmission planning.
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CAISO, EDF Trading Settle Fuel Cost Recovery Dispute
FERC approved a $528,000 settlement that ends a dispute between EDF Trading North America and CAISO over fuel cost recovery.
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Pathways Initiative Receives Praise, Skepticism at Calif. Hearing
California senators heard arguments for and against the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative, with some lawmakers voicing concerns about guardrails against market manipulation and what the effort means for the state's autonomy to set its own policies.

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