Citing an energy “emergency” in the Northwest this winter, DOE ordered TransAlta to continue operating Washington’s last coal-fired generating plant for three months beyond its scheduled retirement at the end of this year.

The Western Energy Markets Governing Body approved a set of revisions to CAISO's gas-fired energy generation resource management program after two years of work with stakeholders.

The Western Transmission Expansion Coalition plans to publish its 10-year outlook for Western transmission needs in February 2026 and has begun outlining the 20-year plan, according to Energy Strategies, which is developing the report.

CAISO and SPP have made “significant progress” on adapting existing tools to tackle seams between the two entities’ respective day-ahead markets, according to a CAISO representative.

A new CAISO paper lays out a series of challenges around how to improve participation of demand response and distributed energy resources in the ISO's day-ahead and real-time markets.

The California Department of Water Resources and other parties have asked CAISO to restart a transmission access charge initiative that was put on hold in 2018 due to the development of the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.

A new report examines CAISO, MISO, PJM and SPP efforts to accelerate interconnection and concludes that while some may succeed in speeding generation additions, some sacrifice fairness, transparency and open-access principles.

FERC granted CAISO's request to remove the sunset date on the Western Energy Imbalance Market Assistance Energy Transfer feature, which has been used by more than 10 of the market’s balancing area authorities in recent years.

CAISO's Department of Market Monitoring has asked the ISO to re-evaluate its intertie scheduling proposal for the Extended Day-Ahead Market due to potential impacts on market participants.