Nearly 600 people crowded into this year's California Energy Commission EPIC Symposium, doubling attendance from last year.

Peak Reliability and PJM Connext have refined their pitch to attract participants to a new Western energy market, saying they envision “a marketplace built by and for the West.”

CAISO operating revenues jumped 4.4% to $214 million last year on the back of increased Energy Imbalance Market earnings and an uptick in summer activity.

CAISO unveiled a plan to restructure its congestion revenue rights (CRR) auction to address long-running complaints, including those of their internal market monitor.

Flashpoints over grid reliability, market outcomes and ratepayer costs were on full display at a CAISO forum to discuss its backstop procurement policies.

California utilities and other parties say they have reached a new settlement over the costs of shutting down the San Onofre nuclear power plant.

CAISO launched a sweeping set of updates to its interconnection policies, an annual process made increasingly complex by a rapidly changing resource mix.

CAISO has kicked off an effort to implement major changes in the way it procures backstop generation needed to maintain grid reliability.

The Energy Imbalance Market Governing Body rejected the CAISO move to change how members of the panel are nominated.

CAISO is delving into the next phase of a years-long effort to integrate more energy storage and demand response into its markets.