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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.
NV Energy
The Bureau of Land Management issued a record of decision approving the 470-mile transmission line, which will connect Las Vegas with the northern part of Nevada and be capable of transmitting up to 4,000 MW of energy.
Shutterstock
FERC approved a deal in which BlackRock would buy all the limited liability company interests in Global Infrastructure Management for $3 billion in cash and 12 million shares of BlackRock Funding.
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The issue of how to allocate transmission plan deliverability for projects with long lead-time network and reliability upgrades remained the center of discussion at a CAISO Interconnection Process Enhancements Working Group meeting.
Travel Portland
The Bonneville Power Administration plans to contribute its full share of funding for Phase 2 of SPP’s Markets+, an executive with the federal power agency has said.
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The WestTEC steering committee unanimously approved the plan that will underpin a Western transmission study designed to spur development of interregional projects over the next two decades.
Amazon
Collaboration among stakeholders will be crucial to maintaining Western grid reliability in the face of increasing demand posed by large loads such as new data centers, speakers said during a webinar hosted by WECC.
Bonneville Power Administration
CAISO’s adoption of the Pathways Initiative’s “Step 1” changes won't overcome BPA’s objections to the governance of the ISO’s EDAM, Administrator John Hairston told U.S. senators from the Pacific Northwest.
The Brattle Group
A new study may dispel the notion that New Mexico utilities must follow the day-ahead market choice of their Arizona counterparts in order to realize benefits from market participation.
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CAISO dove into Track 3 of its Interconnection Process Enhancements initiative as staff and stakeholders grappled with how to solve problems related to allocating transmission plan deliverability.
Western Power Pool
The Western Resource Adequacy Program’s key stakeholder body approved a plan that would postpone the start of its penalty phase by one year, to summer 2027.
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