FERC said SPP's proposed Tariff for its Western Energy Imbalance Service market fails to respect transmission rights of non-participants.
The proposed expansion of CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market to a day-ahead market won’t be as voluntary as advertised, some stakeholders are arguing.
NWPP members discussed a proposed resource adequacy program that would create a “binding” capacity mechanism for summer and winter.
The Northwest Power Pool held a webinar on efforts to create a resource adequacy program, discussing FERC oversight and a need to manage the program.
The Northwest Power Pool is planning a resource adequacy program to ensure sufficient capacity at a time of increasing retirements and shifts toward renewable energy.
Developers of transmission projects that would send wind power across the Western Interconnection made cases at the Western Planning Regions Interregional Coordination Meeting.
FERC accepted settlements with Bonneville Power Administration, FirstLight Power and an unnamed entity for violating NERC reliability standards.
Preliminary findings from a WECC study indicate inclusion of day-ahead trading in the EIM will yield reliability benefits that outweigh any expected risks.
FERC will allow the Transmission Agency of Northern California to convert capacity on a line into “option” congestion revenue rights in the CAISO market.
CAISO’s Western EIM delivered more than $60 million in benefits to its participants in the fourth quarter of 2019, bringing the total to $862 million.