Energy Strategies
CAISO
CAISO’s Market Monitor cautioned that a new resource adequacy proposal could lead to strategic gaming in the ISO’s market when capacity supplies are tight on the grid.
ITC Midwest
CREPC TC, in collaboration with Energy Strategies, issued its first transmission cost allocation study to provide the Western electricity industry with guidelines on how to tackle the thorny issue.
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The CREPC Transmission Collaborative is wrapping up work on a cost allocation study, while another transmission expansion coalition study is behind schedule, staff said during the Western Interstate Energy Board’s annual meeting.
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The Western Transmission Expansion Coalition is on track to publish the first phase of its transmission planning study this summer despite some delays in finalizing the models that will underpin the study.
CAISO
CAISO's Board of Governors approved the ISO's 2024/25 transmission plan to build out 31 new projects in the region over the next eight to 10 years.
Travel Portland
Bonneville's final record of decision will come as little surprise to those who’ve been following market developments in the West.
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Regional initiatives aimed at increasing coordination and collaboration among power entities in the West are essential to tackle mounting technical and political challenges, panelists said during a discussion at the spring joint CREPC-WIRAB meeting.
Energy Strategies
The Western Interconnection will need about 15,600 additional new line miles of high-voltage transmission at a cost of about $75 billion over the next 20 years to meet the anticipated increase in load growth, according to a report commissioned by Gridworks and GridLab.
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The issue of how to allocate transmission plan deliverability for projects with long lead-time network and reliability upgrades remained the center of discussion at a CAISO Interconnection Process Enhancements Working Group meeting.
Western Power Trading Forum/Public Generating Pool
The study finds dividing CAISO’s EDAM from SPP’s Markets+ would create seams that pose a different set of problems than challenges seen at the boundaries of full RTOs in other parts of the U.S.
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