FERC approved CAISO’s agreement for integrating Canadian power marketer Powerex into the EIM.

The EIM Governing Body approved a CAISO proposal allowing market participants to take part in a program that models generator outages.

EIM market participants voiced concerns about fluctuating load forecasts that make it harder to pass resource sufficiency tests.

Generation owners in CAISO are urging changes in an ISO reliability proposal for determining which unprofitable generators are eligible to receive payments.

Berkshire Hathaway Energy subsidiaries PacifiCorp and NV Energy asked FERC to lift bidding restrictions placed on them in the EIM.

FERC rejected a CAISO proposal intended to prevent small transmission owners from shouldering the costs for network upgrades.

CAISO is moving forward with a proceeding that could result in changes to how it allocates transmission costs to participants in its wholesale markets.

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.

CAISO is close to finalizing a long-running effort to reduce exceptional dispatch of generation to resolve transmission constraints.