FERC approved a series of revisions related to the design of CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market to support market implementation and avoid disruptions to existing contracts.

FERC fined Terra-Gen nearly $5 million for strategically using its battery storage resources to repeatedly manipulate CAISO’s market over almost two years.

Federal agencies urged the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to pause a lower court’s order that would increase spill levels at eight dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers, saying the order risks increasing rates and causing costly blackouts.

CAISO’s draft 2025/26 transmission plan proposes more than $1 billion for an infrastructure project that would power new data centers and other large loads in Silicon Valley.

Data centers are a hot topic for Arizona state officials, as the Arizona Corporation Commission has scheduled a workshop on the subject and the governor’s office has released a task force report with six data-center-related recommendations.

The Bonneville Power Administration’s draft decision “solidifying” its day-ahead market choice in favor of SPP’s Markets+ has reignited a yearslong debate over the agency’s direction.

The Western Energy Imbalance Market’s Intermountain West region saw its hourly exports increase by an average of 780% — or 680 MW — in Q4 2025 versus the same period a year earlier.

Despite a few large storms in January and February, California snowpack levels are near record lows due to a heat dome that settled over the state in March.

The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee is finalizing role specifications for the initial board members of the Regional Organization for Western Energy as it prepares to evaluate candidates.

CAISO’s Department of Market Monitoring urged the ISO to replace its interim congestion revenue allocation rules under its forthcoming Extended Day-Ahead Market “as soon as practicable.”