CAISO dismissed Powerex’s contention that the ISO only recently has “revealed” that participation in its EDAM is voluntary at the balancing authority level but not voluntary for “individual customers” operating within the BA participating in the market.
The Oregon Senate is set to vote on a bill that aims to mitigate the impact of rising energy costs on consumers by prohibiting residential rate increases during the winter and requiring utilities and regulators to analyze consumer affordability when setting rates.
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council hired Peter Cogswell, the former director of intergovernmental affairs at BPA, as its next executive director.
CAISO's Board of Governors and the Western Energy Markets Governing Body approved a new method for allocating certain congestion revenues in the ISO's Extended Day-Ahead Market, set to launch in 2026
FERC rejected a request by four Western utilities to rehear its approval of the “transmission contributors” option in the SPP Markets+ tariff but provided the utilities clarification on the boundaries of that provision.
FERC partially approved three entities' Order 2023 compliance filings, directing them to address mostly minor — but a few substantive — issues in their submissions.
Though BPA removed any uncertainty by selecting SPP’s Markets+ over CAISO’s EDAM, the debate over whether BPA made the right choice likely will heat up as the West confronts a split into two major markets.
CAISO released a draft final proposal detailing how EDAM will allocate congestion revenues in circumstances when a transmission constraint in one BAA produces “parallel” flows in a neighboring BAA also participating in the market.
