By Jason Fordney CAISO is moving forward with an initiative meant to ease the integration of distributed resources into its markets. The main goal of the program: to make it easier for grid-connected resources such as rooftop solar, energy storage, plug-in electric vehicles and demand response to participate in the...

By Robert Mullin Despite President Trump’s moves to dismantle his predecessor’s climate change policies, Pacific Gas and Electric isn’t having second thoughts about its strategy of capitalizing on California’s greenhouse gas reduction goals, the utility’s new chief executive said. “We believe that, regardless of what happens at the federal level,...

By Jason Fordney Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) transfers out of CAISO were on the upswing in March, re-establishing a pattern first seen last spring as California’s growing solar surpluses turned the state into a significant exporter of renewable energy. Real-time transfers out of CAISO were 243,908 MWh during the month,...

By Robert Mullin For nearly three hours this summer, a solar eclipse will blackout much of California’s growing volume of solar generating resources, forcing the state’s grid operator to cover the shortfall with a bevy of resources equipped to quickly react to dispatch instructions. CAISO is already well into developing...

By Tom Kleckner LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — SPP announced Tuesday it has named CAISO’s Keith Collins as the new executive director of its Market Monitoring Unit, effective June 1. Collins Collins was CAISO’s manager of monitoring and reporting and had been with the organization since May 2010. He will replace...

By Robert Mullin CAISO’s Board of Governors on Monday approved Tariff measures that will enable the ISO to procure additional black start resources in the San Francisco Bay Area and create a new transmission access charge (TAC) zone in Southern California to accommodate a transmission owner that doesn’t intend to...

By Robert Mullin Californians who receive their electricity service from one of the state’s growing number of community choice aggregators (CCAs) could face higher costs under a plan being proposed by the state’s three investor-owned utilities. The proposal — filed jointly by Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison and...

By Robert Mullin Phoenix-based Salt River Project (SRP) on Thursday signed an agreement with CAISO that puts the utility on track to join with the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) in April 2020. | Salt River Project By linking up with the EIM, SRP will follow a course already charted...

By Robert Mullin CAISO management is considering whether to approve two low-cost transmission upgrade projects using an accelerated procedure that bypasses the usual stakeholder process and the Board of Governors. One project would entail landscaping changes needed to accommodate an uprate on the Pacific DC Intertie, Southern California’s direct link...

By Robert Mullin CAISO is curtailing an increasing volume of renewable generation this spring as the ISO sees its “duck curve” already dipping to levels not forecast to occur until 2021. Compounding the issue is an unusually high snowpack coming after years of drought that had previously undercut California’s hydroelectric...