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By Jason Fordney Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) leaders on Tuesday approved rule changes that would allow EIM balancing areas to manually adjust load forecasts during market operations to ensure the grid can support system conditions. Cooper | © RTO Insider The five-member EIM Governing Body at a meeting in...

By Jason Fordney Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) will pay $98 million in penalties for past improper communications with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), but the years-old proceeding related to the controversy will continue to drag on because of new emails that came to light last fall. The CPUC...

By Tom Kleckner HOUSTON — Approaching his 89th birthday, James A. Baker III last week revealed the enduring sharpness of his political mind with a keynote address that delved into personal history, decried the “bankruptcy of our national public debate” and offered a middle ground to address climate change. Baker...

By Jason Fordney CAISO last week provided details on its plans for major changes to improve the alignment of its day-ahead market with real-time demand by introducing more scheduling granularity and other refinements. Nearly 150 participants joined a conference call Wednesday at which the ISO discussed technical aspects of the...

By Jason Fordney SANTA FE, N.M. — In an American West city known for its artists, writers and the beauty of its barren desert environment, state regulators and others last week discussed difficult grid reliability issues and the more vicious side of nature. New Mexico State University's Center for Public...

By Robert Mullin VANCOUVER, Canada — The three RTOs vying to organize Western electricity markets on Thursday faced off before an audience of utility regulators in what one state commissioner billed a “beauty pageant.” Kavulla | © RTO Insider “Thank you for competing,” Montana Public Service Commission Vice Chairman Travis...

By Jason Fordney California lawmakers moved forward with several pieces of energy legislation last week, but hotly watched items such as a 100% renewable energy standard and CAISO regionalization seem to be set on simmer. Several bills moved through a California Assembly Committee last week | © RTO Insider There...

By Robert Mullin VANCOUVER, Canada — With three RTOs advancing competing efforts to extend their services into the West, the region’s utility regulators last week took a timely crash course on the legal implications of allowing their utilities to join organized markets. It was a bracing — and invaluable —...

By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — By now, it sounds like a broken record. As they have in the past four years, the trends in natural gas dominated the discussion of FERC’s annual State of the Markets report at the commission’s open meeting on Thursday. The report found that average U.S.

By Jason Fordney FOLSOM, Calif. — At its first public meeting with potential customers of its reliability coordinator (RC) services Thursday, CAISO divulged that most of the load in the West has signed letters of intent for the new program. CAISO discussed its new RC services proposal at a Thursday...