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.

A NARUC report says California will need to use more advanced planning methods to ensure resource adequacy with an ever-growing reliance on renewables.

The CPUC and CAISO instituted new resource adequacy requirements and conservation programs in preparation for the coming summer.

FERC conditionally approved NextEra Energy Transmission’s $660 million purchase of GridLiance transmission operations in MISO, SPP and CAISO.

COVID-19 and record hurricane and wildfire seasons made 2020 “a unique and at times challenging year,” FERC said in its State of the Markets report.

The Western Energy Imbalance Market approved two CAISO measures and endorsed a third to improve reliability, mitigate capacity shortfalls.

CAISO’s Market Surveillance Committee has endorsed a set of rule changes designed to avoid shortfalls this summer.

A stakeholder initiative to help ensure resource adequacy and avoid energy emergencies this summer is headed to the CAISO Board of Governors.

New PG&E CEO Patti Poppe vowed change as she laid out her vision for the utility, which reported a loss of $1.05/share for 2020.

California’s energy policy leaders came together to weigh the potential impact of the state’s sharply rising electricity rates on its electrification goals.