A meeting to hash out an upcoming Oregon study on RTO membership turned to how the state’s participation might fit into other developments in the West.

Oregon’s Department of Energy is seeking input from power industry stakeholders to help produce a study that could convince lawmakers to obligate the state’s utilities to participate in an RTO.

CAISO issued a grid warning as a wildfire in Oregon threatened one of the major transmission pathways between California and the Pacific Northwest.

Oregon lawmakers approved a bill requiring major utilities to rely solely on clean energy in 2040, making the West Coast carbon-free by midcentury.

One of Wyoming’s four coal plants will be closed and the site repurposed for a 345-MW advanced nuclear reactor, officials said Wednesday.

Puget Sound Energy signed an agreement with a proposed Montana wind power project to obtain 350 MW of wind energy.

CAISO's EIM provided its members $101.01 million in economic benefits during the first three months of 2021, an increase of 75% over a year ago.

PacifiCorp hopes to convince FERC it shouldn't have to pay $42 million for alleged violations that may have contributed to 2012's Wood Hollow wildfire.

A special public meeting of the Oregon PUC illustrated the complexity of issues at play when putting a decarbonization plan into practice.

A class action suit against PacifiCorp alleges the utility failed to de-energize power lines that contributed to a set of wildfires in Oregon.