Elliot Mainzer
CAISO
Elliot Mainzer said working at BPA taught him two critical lessons that he's applied at CAISO: the importance of "robust stakeholder engagement" and "collaborative working relationships."
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CAISO leaders staged a virtual “town hall” to stress the importance of a smooth rollout to the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market in May and promise to address market seams issues.
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The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee asked CAISO to initiate a stakeholder process to create a funding mechanism for the newly incorporated organization that is slated to assume governance over the ISO’s energy markets.
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The Extended Day-Ahead Market took center stage at CAISO in 2025 as the ISO tabled other long-term initiatives to ensure the market’s timely launch in May 2026, with PacifiCorp as its first participant.
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CAISO’s Board of Governors approved two proposals intended to improve how the ISO calculates resource adequacy values and tracks RA supply.
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Below-average temperatures in California this summer have reduced demand and made electric grid operations uneventful so far, with the state reaching 40,000 MW of demand for the first time in July.
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Public Service Company of New Mexico made it official: The utility signed an implementation agreement to begin participating in CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market in fall 2027.
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California-based Turlock Irrigation District has agreed to join CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market in 2027.
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Bonneville's final record of decision will come as little surprise to those who’ve been following market developments in the West.
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BPA's day-ahead market decision will have “major reliability and affordability impacts” on electricity customers in the Northwest and across the West, CAISO CEO Elliot Mainzer told the ISO’s Board of Governors
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