California Gov. Gavin Newsom named new members to the CAISO Board of Governors, Public Utilities Commission and Energy Commission.

Eight of California’s community choice aggregators said they will join forces to create one of the state’s largest procurement entities.

Faced with varying waves of energy storage resources, grid operators are taking steps to accommodate devices sitting in their interconnection queues.

The CAISO Board of Governors approved the Morongo Band of Mission Indians as a participating transmission owner.

PG&E has agreed to sell rights to install wireless communications equipment on 700 transmission towers to SBA Communications.

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.

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.

Legislators in Sacramento introduced bills to ban natural gas from new construction, promote hydrogen as a fuel source and increase DR to head off blackouts

The Western EIM Governing Body discussed CAISO’s summer energy shortfalls, pondering how the EIM could better serve participants during system stress.

FERC stopped short of ordering RTOs/ISOs to modify market rules to foster hybrid resources, instead directing them to submit reports on existing efforts.