The Western Energy Imbalance Market featured prominently in two proposals approved by the CAISO Board of Governors during its Dec. 15 meeting.

The CAISO Board of Governors approved a 2017 budget that includes a $4.3 million increase in spending but no corresponding rise in revenue requirement.

The California PUC ordered Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to meet with groups opposed to the commission’s 2014 settlement

Seattle City Light has signed an agreement with CAISO to begin participating in the Western Energy Imbalance Market in April 2019.

CAISO said it will take advantage of a recently approved system reliability measure when Aliso Canyon gas pipeline restrictions constrain output.

Increased transfer capacity is keeping a lid on congestion in the EIM and limiting participants’ ability to wield market power, according to CAISO’s IMM.

CAISO has narrowed the scope of a generator interconnection plan that seeks to protect smaller transmission owners from disproportionately high costs.

The CAISO internal Monitor is proposing new enforcement measures to address market power concerns in the Energy Imbalance Market.

The Western Energy Imbalance Market governing body voted to implement procedures to ensure market participants have input into CAISO policy initiatives.

The CAISO internal Market Monitor reported that the program for auctioning off congestion revenue rights suffers from inherent design flaws.