A drought in the West is cutting into hydropower supplies needed for summer reliability, especially in California, panelists in a USEA briefing said.

A spate of transmission projects is in the works to move renewables from remote regions of the West to urban load centers.

Supporters and skeptics of a plan to give the EIM’s Governing Body more joint authority with CAISO over changes to the market debated the matter.

CAISO stakeholders are still wary of the new proposed wheel-through provisions the ISO has submitted to FERC for clarity on the complex issue.

Western states must work together to build transmission avoid blackouts, Idaho Power CEO Lisa Grow and CAISO CEO Elliot Mainzer agreed.

CAISO and state agencies released a final analysis of the August blackouts and steps they are taking to prevent capacity shortfalls this summer and beyond.

Top officials discussed CAISO’s handling of California’s mid-August blackouts and actions to avoid future shortages in a webinar.

CAISO's new CEO, Elliot Mainzer, spoke with RTO Insider about his background, priorities and perspective on California's resource adequacy problem.

CAISO said it was continuing to shake up its leadership team under new CEO Elliot Mainzer and recently appointed COO Mark Rothleder.

Officials from CAISO, NYISO and France's RTE joined MISO on the final day of its Market Symposium to discuss data analytics.