Some parties are urging Nevada regulators to wait until initial results are in for CAISO's Extended Day-Ahead Market before deciding whether to allow NV Energy to join.

CAISO leaders staged a virtual “town hall” to stress the importance of a smooth rollout to the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market in May and promise to address market seams issues.

The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee asked CAISO to initiate a stakeholder process to create a funding mechanism for the newly incorporated organization that is slated to assume governance over the ISO’s energy markets.

As the West appears to move toward two separate day-ahead markets, data center developers like Google and clean energy companies are investing with the intent to mitigate seams and ensure operational consistency, panelists at an Advanced Energy United webinar said.

CAISO released its first mandatory report under the California assembly bill that paves the way for an independent regional organization to assume responsibility over the ISO’s energy markets.

Delaware approved the certificate of incorporation for the ROWE, and an executive search firm has been hired to vet candidates for the organization’s initial board, the Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee announced.

The California PUC wants CAISO to come up with a way to pause settlements of certain congestion revenue allocations in the ISO’s upcoming Extended Day-Ahead Market if participants begin to game the market through extensive self-scheduling.

The Extended Day-Ahead Market took center stage at CAISO in 2025 as the ISO tabled other long-term initiatives to ensure the market’s timely launch in May 2026, with PacifiCorp as its first participant.

With 16 binding participants and 58 GW worth of load committed, the Western Power Pool’s Western Resource Adequacy Program aims to build on the momentum in 2026 and prepare for more members.

CAISO is proposing a set of tariff changes for submission to FERC early in 2026 to help ease participants into the ISO’s new Extended Day-Ahead Market.