FERC rejected an argument by the California PUC (CPUC) that it erred last year in allowing PG&E to include a 50-basis-point ISO participation adder.

Legislature ended its 2017 session, drawing criticism for its pursuit of CAISO regionalization and for letting a 100% clean energy bill die in committee.

California legislation that would regionalize CAISO and mandate 100% zero-carbon retail electricity sales statewide by 2045 will not pass this year.

Last-minute legislation that would transform CAISO into an RTO has stalled in the California State Senate.

A California State Assembly committee advanced a Senate bill requiring publicly owned utilities in the Los Angeles Basin to support DER and energy storage.

California utilities and state agencies are cooperating on developing plans to manage the effects of global climate change on the electricity grid.

Few parties in California are happy with the way the state’s community choice aggregator (CCA) program is turning out, legislators learned.

California is offering $45 million in grants for the development of microgrids to stimulate development of new distributed energy resources.

CAISO is moving ahead with an effort to create new tools to deal with the variable output from the increasing amount of renewable generation on its grid.

Industry officials discussed the latest developments in distributed energy resources (DER) at the NARUC Summer Policy Summit.