CAISO is proposing a new method for verifying how much energy thermal resources can provide during peak conditions on California’s grid for resource adequacy purposes.

Former Seattle City Light CEO Debra Smith has been nominated to join the Western Energy Markets (WEM) Governing Body, with a three-year term to begin July 1. 

The CREPC Transmission Collaborative is wrapping up work on a cost allocation study, while another transmission expansion coalition study is behind schedule, staff said during the Western Interstate Energy Board’s annual meeting.

California is setting records with battery energy storage operating on its grid every day, but in one Southern California beach county, residents have come out in large numbers to oppose a proposed 250-MW battery project because of safety and aesthetic concerns.

A California bill to implement the West Wide Governance Pathways Initiative’s Step 2 proposal passed the state Senate in a unanimous vote.

BPA CEO John Hairston’s keynote at the annual meeting of the WCPSC spotlighted a theme that would dominate discussion at the event: the looming prospect of overwhelming growth in electricity demand in the West and across the U.S.

Many stakeholders are now supporting CAISO’s proposed new method for allocating congestion revenues in EDAM after months of workshops and multiple proposals.

CAISO is moving forward with a key initiative to resolve how battery storage resources function on the grid as the battery boom continues in the Golden State.