California Independent System Operator (CAISO)
California energy agency heads appeared before state lawmakers to pitch the proposed CAISO governance changes being developed by the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative.
CAISO CEO Elliot Mainzer, ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas and MISO's Todd Hillman joined a USEA webinar to discuss grid reliability amid increases in extreme weather and load growth.
A new CAISO proposal seeks to address unwarranted BCR payments to storage resources, an issue that has stirred controversy over the last month.
FERC accepted CAISO’s proposal to allow for storage resources to bid above the ISO’s $1,000/MWh soft offer cap in the real-time market to account for their intraday opportunity costs.
CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market provided its 22 participants with $365.04 million in economic benefits from April to June down 4% from the same period a year ago.
The new "RO" envisioned by the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative might be based near CAISO’s headquarters in Folsom, Calif., according to a straw proposal.
CAISO will recommend its board approve a proposal to eventually give the WEM Governing Body increased authority over both the Western EIM and EDAM.
A new report from NERC and the National Academy of Engineering explored the shortcomings of traditional resource adequacy metrics and alternatives under development.
Batteries may be receiving excessive or inefficient bid cost recovery payments in CAISO, an issue that could be exacerbated by the ISO’s recent move to increase its soft offer cap to allow for higher bids by storage resources.
The WEIM Governing Body voted to change its name to the “Western Energy Markets” Governing Body to better reflect its full scope of responsibility since it began overseeing CAISO’s EDAM.
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