NV Energy notified the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada that it plans to leave the Western Power Pool’s Western Resource Adequacy Program, citing five critical issues with the program’s design.

The Western Power Pool’s WRAP secured enough participants for the program to enter the first binding phase after 11 utilities reaffirmed their commitment.

As long as entities across the West remain committed to continued regional trade, coordination, and reciprocal efforts to enable market participation, there can be significant benefits for the region at large, say Chris Robinson and Scott Simms.

A wide variety of stakeholders — including representatives of the DER sector — will serve as advisers to the Pathways Initiative as it enters its next phases.

SPP named Tim Vigil, chief member relations and strategy officer for Pacific Northwest Generating Cooperative, as director of the Market Monitoring Unit’s office dedicated to Markets+.

Former SPP COO Carl Monroe's decades of outreach to Western Interconnection entities are evident in the RTO's various markets and service offerings in the West.

With California passing the bill designed to transition the governance of CAISO’s markets to an independent regional organization, new challenges await the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative as the coalition seeks to turn a once-elusive goal into reality.

Six Western U.S. senators came out in support of the California legislation needed to transform CAISO’s market into an independent regional energy market, saying in a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom the bill promises "improved grid reliability and significant energy cost savings.”

Four Western utility executives participating in an Energy Bar Association webinar presented their reasoning for why they ultimately chose either SPP’s Markets+ or CAISO’s EDAM, with some eyeing the creation of a full regional transmission organization in the future.