California Gov. Gavin Newsom renewed his call for lawmakers to pass a bill to authorize CAISO to relinquish governance of its electricity markets and allow it and the state’s utilities to participate in a new “regional organization” designed to oversee a West-wide market.
CAISO staff showed how the grid operator plans to implement certain parts of its Extended Day-Ahead Market, with stakeholders asking for more time to comment on what they said crossed into potential policy revisions.
CAISO’s Market Monitor is concerned about potential gaming practices and inefficient bidding behavior in the ISO’s bid cost recovery process for battery storage resources.
Trade organizations for utilities and large energy consumers seek to intervene in the lawsuit filed in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the Bonneville Power Administration’s decision to join SPP’s Markets+ instead of CAISO’s EDAM.
California energy officials are recognizing the need to work together to prioritize a long list of transmission and distribution interconnection projects as the state’s load growth accelerates due to expected data center development.
An aggregation of more than 100,000 residential batteries provided an average 535 MW of support to California’s electricity grid during a test to prepare for the hot summer period ahead.
CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market provided participants with $422.44 million in economic benefits during the second quarter of 2025, up 15% compared with the same period year earlier despite no change in membership.
FERC affirmed the ability of an independent transmission developer to include an RTO adder in its CAISO formula rate, rebuffing a request by the California Public Utilities Commission to reject the company’s use of the incentive.
The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative will run its stakeholder processes separately from CAISO’s until the effort's regional organization is formally launched in 2028, even in areas of overlapping interest.
