The CAISO-run Western EIM has increased the operational flexibility of the region’s utilities, panelists said at the Infocast Transmission Summit West.

The CAISO proposal to provide transmission revenue to balancing authority areas that wheel power received a wary response from EIM stakeholders.

EIM participants are generally supportive of CAISO's plan to account for greenhouse gas emissions of external resources but requested more info.

A Department of Energy study found that Western U.S. utilities procured three times more wind capacity than planned in 2003-2014.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the 11th utility to announce plans to participate in the CAISO-run Energy Imbalance Market (EIM).

Powerex has signed an agreement with CAISO to become the first non-U.S. participant in the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM).

EIM transfers out of CAISO were on the upswing in March, re-establishing a pattern first seen last spring with California’s growing solar surpluses.

Salt River Project signed an agreement with CAISO that puts the utility on track to join with the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) in April 2020.

The balancing area for the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District signed an agreement allowing SMUD to join the Western EIM in 2019.

CAISO officials and stakeholders discussed the ISO's primary frequency response product initiative.