The West must build or upgrade 12,600 miles of transmission at a cost of about $60 billion to meet the region’s forecast 30% increase in peak demand and other needs by 2035, according to the Western Transmission Expansion Coalition's 10-year outlook.

CAISO wants to ensure grid reliability when artificial intelligence data centers “pulsate.”

CAISO leaders staged a virtual “town hall” to stress the importance of a smooth rollout to the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market in May and promise to address market seams issues.

The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee asked CAISO to initiate a stakeholder process to create a funding mechanism for the newly incorporated organization that is slated to assume governance over the ISO’s energy markets.

As the West appears to move toward two separate day-ahead markets, data center developers like Google and clean energy companies are investing with the intent to mitigate seams and ensure operational consistency, panelists at an Advanced Energy United webinar said.

CAISO released its first mandatory report under the California assembly bill that paves the way for an independent regional organization to assume responsibility over the ISO’s energy markets.

Delaware approved the certificate of incorporation for the ROWE, and an executive search firm has been hired to vet candidates for the organization’s initial board, the Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee announced.

California continues to add in-state renewable energy resources, but the transmission upgrades needed to bring those projects online have been lagging behind, according to the Public Utilities Commission.

The Bonneville Power Administration provided updates on the agency’s $5 billion in transmission projects as some stakeholders asked about sunsetting of tax credits and coordination efforts with other developers in the West.

California’s two large offshore wind projects could be delayed by up to six years due to recent federal policy actions, a CPUC administrative law judge said.