The Oregon Department of Energy’s new draft energy strategy points to the importance of new transmission development and expanding electricity markets for meeting the state's energy goals.

The development of SPP's Markets+ has picked up the pace with stakeholders agreeing on an interim governance structure and representation on the working groups that will handle much of the effort ahead.

Trade organizations for utilities and large energy consumers seek to intervene in the lawsuit filed in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the Bonneville Power Administration’s decision to join SPP’s Markets+ instead of CAISO’s EDAM.

The Colorado PUC voted to approve Public Service Company of Colorado's plans to join SPP’s Markets+, with commissioners split on whether the move is a step toward or away from full RTO participation.

A new task force will examine how the WPP’s WRAP can continue to operate efficiently under the new multimarket environment emerging in the West.

FERC is moving to rescind the West-wide wholesale electricity price cap mechanism it instituted in 2002 in response to widespread price manipulation during the Western energy crisis of 2000/01.

The author behind the bill that would allow CAISO to relinquish market governance to an independent RO has delayed a hearing after several organizations withdrew support for the proposed legislation.

A group of environmental organizations sued the Bonneville Power Administration in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals over the agency’s decision to join SPP’s Markets+ instead of CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.

Although one of the aims of day-ahead markets in the West is to fix a fragmented transmission landscape, some islanded entities will have a tough time navigating seams issues likely to arise as markets take shape, analysts at Aurora Energy Research said during a webinar.