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March 19, 2026

CAISO/WEIM

The California Independent System Operator serves about 80% of California's electricity demand, including the service areas of the state's three investor-owned utilities. It also operates the Western Energy Imbalance Market, an interstate real-time market covering territory that accounts for 80% of the load in the Western Interconnection.
CAISO
CAISO’s CRR Market Yields Summer Surpluses
CAISO’s congestion revenue rights market showed unusual surpluses this summer because of higher congestion rents on Path 26.
CAISO Updates Storage as Transmission Asset Plan
Stakeholders weighed in on the 2nd CAISO straw proposal to treat energy storage as transmission assets (SATA) for purposes of accessing market revenues.
SERC
SERC Taps ReliabilityFirst Exec as CEO
SERC Reliability Corp. on Monday announced Jason Blake, vice president and general counsel of ReliabilityFirst, as its new CEO, effective Nov. 15.
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CAISO Symposium Looks to Grid’s Future
The 1,000 or so attendees at CAISO’s Stakeholder Symposium got a glimpse of what the future could hold during the event’s 10th anniversary.
Bureau of Land Management
Fire Season Becomes Blackout Time in California
California’s big utilities shut down power proactively or warned customers they might need to because of windy conditions that could lead to wildfires.
National Weather Service
PG&E Shuts down Power to Prevent Fires
Pacific Gas and Electric pre-emptively shut down power to thousands of its customers amid high winds to reduce the risk of wildfires.
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Northwest Ponders RTO with Mix of Hope and Skepticism
Talk of an RTO for the Western Interconnection lived during the annual meeting of the Northwest & Intermountain Power Producers Coalition (NIPPC).
Western Regionalization ‘No-brainer,’ PJM CEO Says
PJM is leaving the door open to developing an organized electric market in the Western Interconnection, despite the downfall of Peak Reliability.
Tx Path Uncertain for Massive New Mexico Wind Farm
Regulators in New Mexico have approved Pattern’s Corona Wind Farm Project but not the SunZia transmission project that would send Corona's output to CAISO.
IPCC
IPCC: Urgent Action Needed to Avoid Climate Trigger
Climate change could have catastrophic effects sooner than previously thought, according to a new report by the U.N.’s IPCC.

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