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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...

By Robert Mullin Financial traders made clear last week that they won’t give up CAISO’s congestion revenue rights (CRR) auctions without a fight, sparring with the ISO’s internal Market Monitor at the first meeting to discuss the auctions’ revenue shortfalls. At a contentious meeting of the Congestion Revenue Rights Analysis...

By Robert Mullin Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Governing Body members on Wednesday approved a measure that would give them increased power to make changes to the market’s governing charter. CAISO’s Board of Governors still has final say over the measure, which revises the charter by granting the Governing Body “primary”...

By Robert Mullin Electricity customers in Los Angeles County will soon have the option to purchase their power from a new publicly run supplier that will obtain more of its energy from renewable resources. The county’s Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 on Tuesday to establish a community choice aggregator (CCA)...

By Robert Mullin Arizona Public Service expects to meet its future energy needs through increased use of natural gas, solar and efficiency measures, while at the same time reducing its reliance on coal-fired generation, according to the company’s 15-year integrated resource plan. The IRP filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission...

By Robert Mullin A Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) nominating committee made up of regional stakeholders is recommending that Kristine Schmidt be reappointed to the market’s Governing Body. Schmidt | © RTO Insider Schmidt was selected by the inaugural Governing Body last June after an extensive vetting process that included...