Western Energy Imbalance Market leaders endorsed CAISO’s controversial proposal to give generators more bidding flexibility.

The Energy Imbalance Market Governing Body rejected the CAISO move to change how members of the panel are nominated.

CAISO market participants have many opinions on how the ISO should prioritize the complex and urgent tasks on the ISO’s plate for 2018.

The Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) expanded its footprint and ambitions in 2017 while new suitors lined up to compete with CAISO as the vehicle for a Western RTO.

Operators of traditional resources say the Vision 2030 paper drifts outside CAISO’s purpose of assuring reliability and managing markets.

CAISO’s Board of Governors approved new generator contingency modeling, rules extending time for generator interconnections and EIM enhancements.

CAISO is floating a proposal that would extend many of the features of its day-ahead market into the footprint of the EIM.

FERC approved CAISO’s request to extend temporary market measures instituted last year in response to the closure of Aliso Canyon.

FERC upheld a previous ruling covering Order 1000 cost allocation in the WestConnect planning region, adding further explanation of its reasoning.

PacifiCorp and NV Energy can sell power into the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) at market-based rates, FERC has ruled.