The Western Energy Imbalance Market governing body voted to implement procedures to ensure market participants have input into CAISO policy initiatives.

The California PUC (CPUC) is protesting the FERC decision to allow PG&E (NYSE:PCG) to include an ISO adder in its 2017 transmission rates proposal.

The Seattle City Council authorized Seattle City Light to conduct a cost-benefit analysis on joining the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM).

Last week's FERC technical conference on the EIM began on a contentious note but concluded with participants understanding each others’ perspectives.

The Sacramento Municipal Utilities District (SMUD) will join the Western EIM in spring 2019 at the earliest, according to the head of BANC.

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District will join the CAISO EIM and other members of the Balancing Authority of Northern California (BANC) may follow.

The prevailing opinion at the Infocast California Energy Summit was that solar is the generation of choice now in the state.

Having survived a major legal challenge, demand response now must overcome behavioral and political obstacles.