December 25, 2024

Portland General Electric (PGE)

LADWP
LADWP Gets Board’s OK to Join CAISO’s EDAM
The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners gave the go-ahead for LADWP to join CAISO’s EDAM, in a move expected to increase the utility’s annual net revenue by almost $40 million.
Grid United
Puget Sound Energy Signs on with North Plains Connector
Puget Sound Energy became the latest utility to stake a claim in the North Plains Connector, a 420-mile transmission line from central North Dakota to southeast Montana.
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Power Market Costs Behind Rate Increases, PGE Says
Portland General Electric’s rate hikes largely stem from increased wholesale power market costs, the utility wrote after Sen. Ron Wyden voiced concern that Oregon customers are struggling to pay their electricity bills.
Salt River Project
4 Arizona Utilities Commit to Joining Markets+
The joint announcement by APS, SRP, TEP and UniSource Energy marks a significant win for SPP after a string of victories for CAISO’s competing Extended Day-Ahead Market.
Powerex
Powerex to Cancel Rights on PacifiCorp Tx System over EDAM Changes
Powerex intends to terminate a large portion of its rights on PacifiCorp’s transmission system in response to the utility’s plans to update its transmission tariff to align with CAISO’s EDAM.
E3
BPA Sticks to Markets+ Leaning Despite Study Showing EDAM Benefits

New findings from a much-anticipated study have “not shifted” BPA's staff recommendation that the agency choose SPP’s Markets+ over CAISO’s — despite results showing greater economic benefits from EDAM.

The Brattle Group
Brattle Study Finds EDAM Gains, Markets+ Losses for BPA, Pacific NW
BPA would earn $65 million in annual benefits from joining CAISO’s EDAM but face $83 million in increased yearly costs from participating in SPP’s Markets+, according to a new Brattle study.
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Regulators Who Launched Pathways Praise Western ‘RO’ Plan
State utility commissioners who launched the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative in July 2023 have praised the initiative’s “Step 2” proposal to create a “regional organization.”
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FERC Grants PGE Extra Time to Prepare for EDAM
FERC granted CAISO a waiver allowing PGE to join the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market a few months beyond the timeline set out in the market’s standard participation agreement.
West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative
Pathways Initiative Releases ‘Step 2’ Proposal for Western ‘RO’
Pathways released its Step 2 draft proposal for dividing up functions between CAISO and the new “regional organization” that initiative backers are seeking to create to oversee the ISO’s Western real-time and day-ahead markets.

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