CAISO provided details on its plans for major changes to improve the alignment of its day-ahead market with real-time demand.

The severity of the 2017 hurricane season was a major topic at New Mexico State University’s annual Current Issues Conference this year.

Grid Operators for the three RTOs vying to organize Western electricity markets faced off before an audience of utility regulators in what one state commissioner billed a “beauty pageant.”

California lawmakers moved forward with several pieces of energy legislation, but items such as a 100% RPS and CAISO regionalization seem to be on hold.

CAISO divulged that most of the load in the Western Interconnection has signed letters of intent for its new reliability coordinator (RC) services.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will vote later this month on a $98 million settlement agreement regarding its own ex parte communications with PG&E.

FERC rejected the proposed CAISO Capacity Procurement Mechanism Risk-of-Retirement (CPM ROR) program.

ETRACOM agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle allegations that it manipulated CAISO markets in a scheme that netted the company $315,000 in profits.

CAISO issued its proposal to offer reliability coordinator services in the West, including a plan to charge rates that appear to dramatically undercut rival Peak Reliability.

CAISO is advancing into the second phase of reforms to its congestion revenue rights (CRR) auction, focusing on implementing a structure that provides only a partial congestion hedge rather than a full one.