February 23, 2025

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WestTEC Transmission Effort Selects Stakeholder Committee

Western Power Pool has announced the 24 members of a stakeholder group that will participate in the West-wide transmission planning effort.

LADWP
LADWP Poised to Join CAISO Day-ahead Market After Board OK

CAISO notched another victory in the competition to bring organized markets to the West when the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s oversight board authorized the utility to prepare to join EDAM.

CAISO
WEIM Ends 2023 Exceeding $5B in Benefits
CAISO’s WEIM last year hit $5.05 billion in benefits for its members since its inception in 2014, continuing the positive trend of growth tied to an expanding Western footprint.
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West Entered Pivotal Period for RTO Development in 2023

Future historians of the U.S. electricity sector one day might conclude the development of an RTO in the West hinged on two separate but interrelated events occurring on one day in July 2023.

TransCanyon LLC
‘Missing Pathway’ Advancing Through Approval Steps in West

The proposed Cross-Tie transmission project is moving through the federal approval process with a targeted in-service date in 2027.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
FERC Extends Interconnection Queue Compliance Deadline
FERC extended the compliance deadline for its interconnection queue rulemaking by four months, to April 3, 2024.
Idaho Power
FERC OKs Transmission Swap Between Idaho Power, PacifiCorp

FERC approved a transmission asset swap between Idaho Power and PacificCorp as part of the companies’ plans to develop a 300-mile-long, 500-kV line.

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BANC Moving to Join CAISO’s EDAM
CAISO scored a potentially important victory when the Balancing Authority of Northern California said it will pursue membership in the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market — and not SPP’s Markets+.
NERC
NERC Utah Event Report Underlines Ongoing IBR Issues
NERC and WECC warned that inverter-based resource performance remains an ongoing issue in the Western Interconnection.
NYPA
FERC Order 2023 Gets Rehearing Requests from Around the Industry
FERC got rehearing requests on its interconnection queue reforms in Order 2023 this week from around the industry.

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