CAISO will tackle its new role as reliability coordinator in 2019, and California lawmakers will struggle with preventing wildfires sparked by power lines.

Talk of an RTO for the Western Interconnection lived during the annual meeting of the Northwest & Intermountain Power Producers Coalition (NIPPC).

California may be able to meet its carbon goal by 2045, but it’s going to be more difficult and more expensive without a Western RTO, advocates contend.

Even after failing three times in three years, supporters of CAISO regionalization say they’ll likely keep at it until they succeed.

A measure to expand CAISO into an RTO for Western states failed to clear the legislature for the third time in three years.

A bill that would require California to get 100% of its power from renewable and other zero-carbon resources by 2045 passed a major hurdle.

Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) has applied to join the Energy Imbalance Market by 2021, the EIM Governing Body learned.

The California State Senate’s Appropriations Committee sent a bill that would transform CAISO into an RTO back down to the Rules Committee.

The CAISO regionalization bill that would transform CAISO into an RTO passed another key California State Senate committee.

A California Senate committee on Tuesday approved a bill that would allow publicly owned utilities that meet certain criteria to run their gas-fired plants at a minimal level to ensure that related bond debt is paid off and not passed to taxpayers.