Changes meant to improve the performance of CAISO’s day-ahead market and the planned day-ahead expansion of its Western Energy Imbalance Market won board approval.

A WECC study found that the West needs emerging technologies capable of replicating the performance of gas plants to reach 100% clean energy by 2040.

Oregon should recognize the capacity contributions of all resources including variable renewables, according to a report commissioned by the state PUC.

CAISO stakeholders are urging it to develop a plan to procure the flexible capacity resources needed to manage the integration of renewable generation.

CAISO is refining changes to its market rules meant to better reflect suppliers’ costs of producing electricity while increasing flexibility.

CAISO is moving ahead with an effort to create new tools to deal with the variable output from the increasing amount of renewable generation on its grid.