Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM)
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PacifiCorp joins other utilities leaving the Western Power Pool’s Western Resource Adequacy Program just before the deadline to commit to the program’s first binding phase.
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Calpine, Eugene Water & Electric Board, PGE and PNM joined NV Energy in leaving the Western Resource Adequacy Program, while Idaho Power signaled its continued commitment.
New Mexico PRC
State regulators approved an accounting order for Public Service Company of New Mexico’s participation in CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market, in a case that rekindled the debate over which day-ahead market PNM should choose.
PG&E
Four Western utility executives participating in an Energy Bar Association webinar presented their reasoning for why they ultimately chose either SPP’s Markets+ or CAISO’s EDAM, with some eyeing the creation of a full regional transmission organization in the future.
PNM Resources
PNM will provide $175 million in benefits to customers and New Mexico as part of Blackstone Infrastructure’s acquisition of its parent company, TXNM Energy.
Washington State Department of Transportation
As large swaths of the West continue to explore ways to mitigate wildfire risk, utilities say information sharing and new technologies allow them to implement targeted public safety power shutoffs.
WRA
With data centers contributing to surging load growth, a new report suggests that more Western utilities should adopt clean transition tariffs or even make the tariffs mandatory for certain large customers.
PNM
Public Service Company of New Mexico made it official: The utility signed an implementation agreement to begin participating in CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market in fall 2027.
CAISO
The formation of two competing day-ahead markets will create seams across the West, but at least one utility representative is more worried about seams resulting from the fracture of CAISO’s real-time Western Energy Imbalance Market.
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California-based Turlock Irrigation District has agreed to join CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market in 2027.
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