CAISO’s EDAM Scores Key Wins in Contested Northwest

Mar 21, 2024CAISO/WEIMRobert Mullin

CAISO scored simultaneous victories in heavily contested territory after Portland General Electric and Idaho Power both signaled their intent to join the Extended Day-Ahead Market.

West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative

Pathways Initiative Discloses Funders, Reiterates Goals

Mar 18, 2024CAISO/WEIMRobert Mullin

The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative has secured commitments of financial support from 24 utilities and other electricity-sector organizations and expects that list to grow.

NW Cold Snap Dispute Reflects Divisions over Western Markets

Mar 3, 2024CAISO/WEIMRobert Mullin

A dispute around the January cold snap that forced Northwest utilities to sharply increase electricity imports to meet surging demand has become a proxy for the broader day-ahead market contest between CAISO and SPP.

WestTEC Transmission Effort Selects Stakeholder Committee

Feb 28, 2024CAISO/WEIMElaine Goodman

Western Power Pool has announced the 24 members of a stakeholder group that will participate in the West-wide transmission planning effort.

LADWP

LADWP Poised to Join CAISO Day-ahead Market After Board OK

Feb 15, 2024CAISO/WEIMRobert Mullin

CAISO notched another victory in the competition to bring organized markets to the West when the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s oversight board authorized the utility to prepare to join EDAM.

CAISO

WEIM Ends 2023 Exceeding $5B in Benefits

Feb 7, 2024CAISO/WEIMAyla Burnett

CAISO’s WEIM last year hit $5.05 billion in benefits for its members since its inception in 2014, continuing the positive trend of growth tied to an expanding Western footprint.

West Entered Pivotal Period for RTO Development in 2023

Jan 3, 2024CAISO/WEIMRobert Mullin

Future historians of the U.S. electricity sector one day might conclude the development of an RTO in the West hinged on two separate but interrelated events occurring on one day in July 2023.