CAISO will make permanent the practice of boosting its power reserves to account for utility-scale solar tripping offline because of an inverters problem.

Powerex is navigating a turbulent relationship with EIM rules the company says undercut the value of its hydro power resources.

The budding efforts to increase the energy efficiency of U.S. marijuana operations will become increasingly critical as the commodity grows into a global market, energy industry experts said Monday.

FERC Commissioners Cheryl LaFleur and Richard Glick told state regulators at the annual meeting of the WCPSC that they will take a light-handed approach as the West develops new market structures.

The California State Senate passed legislation that would allow the state’s investor-owned utilities to pass through the costs of wildfires to ratepayers.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) authorized the state’s investor-owned utilities to recover $738 million for electric vehicles (EV) charging infrastructure.

CAISO is going back to the drawing board to overhaul its reliability-must-run (RMR) program, switching to a “holistic” approach.

Trees contacting Pacific Gas and Electric distribution lines caused four Northern California wildfires last year that burned about 9,400 acres, state investigators said.

California will need between 229,000 and 279,000 electric vehicle chargers at locations other than single-family homes by 2025, the California Energy Commission said.

CAISO’s first-quarter (Q1) revenues were $1.2 million more than it had budgeted, primarily because of entrance fees it collected for the EIM.