CAISO stakeholders voiced skepticism about the effectiveness of a new ISO initiative to prevent early retirement of unprofitable generators.

A CAISO official told stakeholders that reforms to the congestion revenue rights auctions will come only after painstaking analysis.

A CAISO operations shift manager recounted how and why the ISO declared its first Stage 1 emergency in 10 years on May 3.

The continued closure of the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility remains an issue for the summer readiness of the Southern California grid.

A new CAISO initiative could allow power producers a way to temporarily suspend the operation of an unprofitable generating plant.

CAISO’s wholesale costs to serve load last year fell by 9%, the lowest nominal expense since 2008, according to an annual market performance report.

Witness after witness at the FERC technical conference cited California competitive wholesale markets, often in an unflattering context.

CAISO is moving forward with an initiative meant to ease the integration of energy storage and distributed resources into its markets.

Pacific Gas and Electric isn’t having second thoughts about its strategy of capitalizing on California’s greenhouse gas reduction goals.

EIM transfers out of CAISO were on the upswing in March, re-establishing a pattern first seen last spring with California’s growing solar surpluses.