SPP has raised the stakes in what could shape up to be a long-term competition to win over the Western electricity market one service at a time.

California’s annual wildfire season kicked off with high winds, a heat wave and precautionary power shutoffs by PG&E to thousands of customers.

Multiple developers are building or seeking to build massive wind projects in Wyoming, but they lack interstate transmission options to export it.

California's Commission on Catastrophic Wildfire Cost and Recovery recommended overturning the state’s liability standard for utility-sparked fires.

CAISO is postponing stakeholder initiatives on day-ahead market enhancements and storage-as-transmission assets, while adding four new initiatives.

The California PUC unanimously approved wildfire mitigation plans filed by the state’s large investor-owned utilities in response to last year’s SB 901.

The key players in the Western reliability coordinator transition told WECC they’re on track to take over on a staggered timeline from July to December.

California utilities are bracing for fire season as it heads into summer, but officials say questions remain about how to gauge their level of readiness.

The federal judge overseeing PG&E Corp.’s bankruptcy case gave the company four more months to come up with a Chapter 11 reorganization plan.

CAISO’s RC West has been shadowing Peak Reliability as the ISO prepares to take over reliability coordinator functions by the end of this year.