By Robert Mullin Pacific Gas and Electric filed with California regulators last week to shut down the state’s last remaining nuclear power plant by the end of 2025. The application also asks the state Public Utilities Commission to approve a joint proposal that the utility forged with environmental, labor and...

By Robert Mullin A new CAISO proposal seeks to shield smaller participating transmission owners from outsized network upgrade costs for interconnecting generation built to serve load outside that TO’s service area. “The issue is — to what extent should a local area incur costs for resources that are clearly not...

By Robert Mullin California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday postponed CAISO’s effort to expand into a Western RTO, saying  he wants state agencies to take more time to develop a proposal. Brown Source: Wikipedia “While very significant progress has been made by the ISO on a transition proposal that meets...

By Robert Mullin CAISO last week began work on a plan to extend participation in the western Energy Imbalance Market to resources located outside the market’s footprint. Rothleder The move comes a month after FERC rejected CAISO’s proposal to indefinitely prohibit EIM participants from implementing economic bidding at the market’s...

By Robert Mullin A federal judge in Southern California declined to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that CAISO unjustly deprived the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) of its full export rights on a transmission line linking the utility’s balancing authority area (BAA) with the ISO. U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Battaglia on...

By Robert Mullin Arizona Public Service and Puget Sound Energy have moved a step closer to linking up with CAISO’s Energy Imbalance Market. The ISO on Aug. 1 commenced the operations testing phase to prepare the companies for full entry into the real-time market this fall. Over the next two...

By Robert Mullin CAISO last week provided stakeholders an update on its efforts to address concerns that the Energy Imbalance Market is not properly accounting for the impact of emissions from dispatching out-of-state resources into California — what the state’s Air Resources Board calls “carbon leakage.” “We are working collaboratively...

By Robert Mullin Edison International is maneuvering to capitalize on California’s effort to meet its greenhouse gas emissions goals and encourage the use of distributed energy resources. The 2018-2019 rate case for subsidiary Southern California Edison will include a capital spending request “designed to help California achieve its low-carbon policy...

By Robert Mullin Pacific Gas and Electric’s second-quarter profits fell sharply because of a series of one-time costs — most related to the company’s natural gas business. Still, the company sees bright prospects for its electricity business as California moves to aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase reliance on...

By Robert Mullin The western Energy Imbalance Market continued to boost demand for California’s surplus renewable generation last quarter, extending a trend observed during the first three months of 2016, according to CAISO’s quarterly economic benefits report. The eight-state EIM — comprising the CAISO, NV Energy and PacifiCorp balancing authority...