Portland General Electric told Oregon regulators that after decades of electricity flowing from north to south through its system during the summer, the flow on a typical summer day has reversed.
Out-of-state wind integration, merchant transmission development and the WestTEC planning effort are all factors influencing CAISO’s interregional transmission planning.
The formation of two competing day-ahead markets will create seams across the West, but at least one utility representative is more worried about seams resulting from the fracture of CAISO’s real-time Western Energy Imbalance Market.
Former Seattle City Light CEO Debra Smith has been nominated to join the Western Energy Markets (WEM) Governing Body, with a three-year term to begin July 1.
CAISO delayed its final decision on how to allocate congestion revenues in its Extended Day-Ahead Market after receiving comments from stakeholders asking for more analysis.
Though BPA removed any uncertainty by selecting SPP’s Markets+ over CAISO’s EDAM, the debate over whether BPA made the right choice likely will heat up as the West confronts a split into two major markets.
Puget Sound Energy said it is joining Markets+, marking another win for SPP shortly after the Bonneville Power Administration issued its final market policy in favor of the day-ahead market.
FERC approved the non-rate terms of SunZia Transmission’s proposed transmission owner tariff but sent the tariff’s non-subscriber usage rate to a settlement process and potential hearing.
