CAISO on Monday called on consumers to voluntarily conserve energy this week as scorching heat drove up electricity usage and caused outages.

Electric system disturbances from the loss of generation or transmission in the Western Interconnection increased by 50% between 2015 and 2016.

CAISO is kicking off an initiative that will consolidate proposed changes to the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM).

CAISO finalized a set of updates to its demand response and distributed generation policies, saying there is strong stakeholder support for the new rules.

Some members of Congress have joined power utilities in opposing Trump’s proposal to sell assets of the federal power marketing administrations.

CAISO will increase its daily procurement of operating reserves in response to the erroneous tripping of solar generation caused the loss of 1,200 MW.

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

CAISO stakeholders pressed the ISO for details on a proposal to broaden and make permanent some of the operational measures it developed in response to the Aliso Canyon gas restrictions.

CAISO has proposed to make permanent its practice of curtailing gas burn and using market tools to reduce the reliability risk posed by Aliso Canyon.

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.