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FERC voted to approve a supplemental NOPR that would scale back a transmission rate adder designed to encourage utilities to join RTOs. | © RTO Insider LLC
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The California Energy Commission has taken a step toward making millions of households part of demand response efforts designed to avoid blackouts and bolster the state’s clean-energy goals. | Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab Public Affairs
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California’s PUC used its new enhanced oversight & enforcement powers for the first time against PG&E, citing the utility’s failure to weigh wildfire risks. | CPUC
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Western states must work together to build transmission avoid blackouts, Idaho Power CEO Lisa Grow and CAISO CEO Elliot Mainzer agreed. | © RTO Insider LLC
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Some California lawmakers want the woody biomass from forest thinning efforts to be used for electricity generation. | DTE Energy
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FERC sent CAISO’s first systemwide RMR agreement to settlement proceedings after the ISO raised questions about the contract’s fairness. | Union of Concerned Scientists
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The debate over using large-scale blackouts to prevent wildfires in California has become more urgent as the state heads into another fire season. | Technosylva
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CAISO’s Western EIM notched another milestone as it welcomed the country’s largest municipal utility and extended its border to include much of New Mexico. | PNM
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A NARUC report says California will need to use more advanced planning methods to ensure resource adequacy with an ever-growing reliance on renewables. | NRRI
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The California PUC and CAISO instituted new resource adequacy requirements and conservation programs in preparation for the coming summer. | California PUC
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The Zogg Fire started when a leaning tree struck a PG&E power line, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. | Jeff Head via Flickr
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Fellow Democrats are questioning California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal to spend $1.5 billion to accelerate the adoption of zero-emissions vehicles. | California State Assembly
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FERC conditionally approved NextEra Energy Transmission’s $660 million purchase of GridLiance transmission operations in MISO, SPP and CAISO. | GridLiance
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A new report found that California will need to build renewable generation and storage resources at a record pace to provide 100% clean energy by 2045. | © RTO Insider
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The Western Energy Imbalance Market approved two CAISO measures and endorsed a third measure to improve reliability and mitigate capacity shortfalls. | © RTO Insider
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CAISO’s Market Surveillance Committee has endorsed a set of rule changes designed to avoid shortfalls this summer. | CAISO
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California regulators are trying to avoid a repeat of last year’s unprecedented use of public safety power shutoffs to prevent utility equipment from igniting wildfires. | California State Assembly
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A stakeholder initiative to help ensure resource adequacy and avoid energy emergencies this summer is headed to the CAISO Board of Governors. | Southern California Edison
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California’s energy policy leaders came together to weigh the potential impact of the state’s sharply rising electricity rates on its electrification goals. | CPUC
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New PG&E Corp. CEO Patti Poppe vowed change as she laid out her vision for the state’s largest utility, which reported a loss of $1.05/share for 2020. | Tanner Hembree/USDA Forest Service
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