PG&E Corp. said it was postponing a controversial effort to secure up to $20 billion in bonds from the state to pay for wildfires sparked by its equipment.

Some speakers at Infocast’s Storage Week Plus were optimistic that battery storage would become a significant part of the grid in the next five to 10 years.

CAISO said that Turlock Irrigation District, California’s oldest irrigation district, signed an agreement to join the Energy Imbalance Market in April 2021.

The California Public Utilities Commission hosted a forum on the fate of PG&E, where some experts urged it to break up the utility.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom named new members to the CAISO Board of Governors, along with the PUC and the state’s new commission on catastrophic wildfires.

Transmission planners voiced their thoughts about an increasingly decentralized grid at Infocast’s 10th Annual Transmission Summit West.

The Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) expanded its footprint and ambitions in 2017 while new suitors lined up to compete with CAISO as the vehicle for a Western RTO.

The loss of three natural gas pipelines is creating major concerns about Southern California’s gas and electricity supplies.

A California State Assembly committee advanced a Senate bill requiring publicly owned utilities in the Los Angeles Basin to support DER and energy storage.

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