CAISO/WEIM
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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.
Energy Strategies
The Western Interconnection will need about 15,600 additional new line miles of high-voltage transmission at a cost of about $75 billion over the next 20 years to meet the anticipated increase in load growth, according to a report commissioned by Gridworks and GridLab.
CAISO
Data centers are contributing to significant load growth and project needs in Silicon Valley, according to CAISO representatives speaking at the kickoff meeting for the ISO’s 2024/25 transmission planning process.
Western Power Pool
The Western Power Pool’s Board of Directors has approved changes to the Western Resource Adequacy Program’s transition plan that include postponing the program’s “binding” phase by one year and reducing penalties for participants who come up short on RA.
CAISO
CAISO is recommending it implement a Western Power Trading Forum proposal that could help the EDAM track and account for GHG emissions in a way that considers the variety of carbon pricing programs across the West.
PacifiCorp
The Western Transmission Expansion Coalition’s transmission planning study is getting a boost from a $1.75 million Department of Energy grant, even as the cost of the project has grown to $6.1 million.
Idaho Power
FERC largely approved Order 2023 compliance filings for four utilities in the West and Texas, directing them to submit further compliance filings within 60 days.
CAISO
The Western Interconnection reached a record-breaking peak load July 10 despite relatively moderate demand in CAISO, the ISO said during a meeting of its Market Performance and Planning Forum.
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A proposed update to WECC’s long-term strategy has sparked a debate over whether the organization should describe itself as “The Voice of Reliability in the West.”
The Brattle Group
Proponents of SPP’s Markets+ contend in their latest “issue alert” that the framework provides a much more equitable solution to tackling market seams than under CAISO’s EDAM.
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CO2 emissions from the Western U.S. power sector could drop by 73% from 2005 levels if 12 transmission projects in the development pipeline are finished by 2030, according to a new PNNL study.
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