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January 16, 2025

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PJM
PJM MIC Briefs: Aug. 7, 2024
PJM has decided not to refile several components of its proposed capacity market redesign that was rejected by FERC in February.
California Senate
California Energy Officials Pitch Pathways Plan to State Senators
California energy agency heads appeared before state lawmakers to pitch the proposed CAISO governance changes being developed by the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative.
Omnis
Governance is ‘Key Consideration’ for West, Markets+ Backers Say
Governance should be a “key consideration” for the West in the competition between day-ahead electricity markets because the outcome potentially affects $25 billion a year in energy transactions, according to a new “issue alert.”
California Senate
California Labor Groups Affirm Support for Pathways Proposal
Labor groups that blocked past California legislative efforts to “regionalize” CAISO told state lawmakers they “look forward” to working with the legislature next year to pass a bill to implement the governance changes being developed by Pathways.
Bureau of Land Management California
CAISO Proposal Seeks to Refine Storage Bid Cost Recovery
A new CAISO proposal seeks to address unwarranted BCR payments to storage resources, an issue that has stirred controversy over the last month.
© RTO Insider LLC
No Clear Blueprint for Western ‘RO’ Stakeholder Process
One thing has become abundantly clear after three intensive workshops this summer: there’s no blueprint for developing the stakeholder process for the “regional organization” envisioned by the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative.
CAISO
‘Operational Surprises’ Contributed to CAISO July 2023 Emergencies
CAISO’s own systems may have contributed to a set of “operational surprises” that forced it to declare a series of energy emergency alerts in July 2023, a member of the ISO’s Market Surveillance Committee said.
SPP
FERC Finds SPP Markets+ Tariff ‘Deficient’ in Several Areas
SPP’s Markets+ hit a snag after FERC issued a deficiency letter outlining 16 problems the RTO must address in the tariff it filed for the proposed Western day-ahead market in March.
Sandia National Laboratories
FERC Approves CAISO Request to Lift Soft Offer Cap for Hydro, Storage
FERC accepted CAISO’s proposal to allow for storage resources to bid above the ISO’s $1,000/MWh soft offer cap in the real-time market to account for their intraday opportunity costs.
CAISO
WEIM Yields $365M in Q2 Benefits with Hot Start to Summer
CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market provided its 22 participants with $365.04 million in economic benefits from April to June down 4% from the same period a year ago.

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