Arizona Public Service and Puget Sound Energy began transacting in the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) on Oct. 1, bringing the region’s only real-time market up to five members.

Transmission industry owners, operators, generators, regulators, financiers and other key players from the Western U.S. attended Infocast’s 8th annual Transmission Summit West.

FERC approved the CAISO plan to for a new market mechanism for itself and the Western EIM designed to integration of variable renewable energy resources.

FERC rejected for a second time proposed rules by Arizona Public Service on external resources can use dynamic scheduling to participate in the EIM.

CAISO's board has approved a proposal to extend Tariff provisions implemented in June in response to the closure of the Aliso Canyon storage facility.

Optimizing distributed energy resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions cost effectively will require improved forecasting and the elimination of regulatory silos, speakers told Infocast’s California Distributed Energy Summit last week.

Last week’s Infocast California Distributed Energy Summit was a crash course in the complexity of developing policies on distributed energy resources.

CAISO paid congestion revenue rights holders $27 million more than it took in from CRR auctions during the first half of the year, according to the ISO’s Department of Market Monitoring.

CAISO released a final draft proposal to expand the definition of a “load-serving entity” to include organizations purchasing wholesale power to serve their own needs.

The Valley Electric Association board of directors approved an agreement to sell the cooperative’s 230-kV transmission network to GridLiance for about $200 million.