A draft order from the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada signals that the commission is likely to approve NV Energy’s participation in CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.

The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee is finalizing role specifications for the initial board members of the Regional Organization for Western Energy as it prepares to evaluate candidates.

CAISO’s Department of Market Monitoring urged the ISO to replace its interim congestion revenue allocation rules under its forthcoming Extended Day-Ahead Market “as soon as practicable.”

CAISO is moving toward approval of an $8.5 million financing plan for the Regional Organization for Western Energy’s start-up costs.

One of the first items the yet-to-be-seated board of the Regional Organization for Western Energy could decide on is whether to administer a resource adequacy program, as backers seek to have a proposal in place later in 2026.

Participants in CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market likely would remain subject to the market’s daily resource sufficiency evaluation even if they joined a new resource adequacy program that’s being crafted.

The push to develop a resource adequacy program serving non-CAISO members of the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market appears to be gathering momentum, with backers saying they aim to produce a draft design for the program in April.

BPA released its draft proposed decision to join SPP’s Markets+, saying that preparations have advanced to a point where it can “move forward with implementation and propose joining Markets+ in October 2028.”

It’s an “all-hands-on-deck” moment for CAISO to open its extended day-ahead market in less than two months, CAISO’s CEO Elliot Mainzer said at a Western Energy Market Board of Governors meeting.

Conversations remained cordial despite the ongoing competition between CAISO and SPP in the west as the RTOs’ top executives took the stage at Yes Energy’s annual EMPOWER conference.