CAISO issued a draft final proposal for its summer readiness market enhancements initiative just three weeks after presenting a straw proposal.
Utilities are hoping their participation in SPP's WEIS market will be the "first step" to full RTO membership.
El Paso Electric, a utility that serves more than 400,000 customers in Texas and New Mexico, plans to join CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market in 2023.
CAISO introduced a straw proposal that aims to attract supply this summer and head off shortfalls like those that led to rolling blackouts last year.
The Western EIM Governing Body discussed CAISO’s summer energy shortfalls, pondering how the EIM could better serve participants during system stress.
BPA acting administrator and CEO John Hairston will officially assume the top job at the federal power marketing agency, the DOE said.
CAISO’s top priority in 2021 will be making sure there is enough generating capacity for summer after last year’s shortfalls.
FERC handed SPP an early Christmas present when it approved the RTO’s second version of a tariff for its five-minute WEIS market.
Panelists at gridCONNEXT's annual conference expressed hope that the incoming Biden administration will be able to advance renewables.
The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Board recounted its accomplishments in 2020 and laid out what it hopes to achieve in 2021.