The CAISO Board of Governors approved an ISO request to designate two Calpine natural gas-fired plants as reliability-must-run (RMR) despite criticism.

Stakeholders and EIM Governing Body members gathered in Las Vegas to express their support for the CAISO-created Regional Issues Forum.

CAISO market participants continue to seek more details about an “expedited” ISO proposal to procure black start resources.

PG&E earned $692 million during the fourth quarter of 2016, compared with $134 million during the same period a year earlier.

CAISO has narrowed the scope of a generator interconnection plan that seeks to protect smaller transmission owners from disproportionately high costs.

The federal government will create 48 “charging corridors” across nearly 25,000 miles of interstate highways in 35 states and D.C.

The California PUC (CPUC) is protesting the FERC decision to allow PG&E (NYSE:PCG) to include an ISO adder in its 2017 transmission rates proposal.

More changes are needed to the CAISO proposed rules for a Western RTO to win approval from the states in which PacifiCorp operates, stakeholders say.

FERC accepted Pacific Gas & Electric’s (NYSE:PCG) filing for a proposed rate increase under the utility’s transmission owner tariff, but suspended implementation of the increase for five months.

Optimizing distributed energy resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions cost effectively will require improved forecasting and the elimination of regulatory silos, speakers told Infocast’s California Distributed Energy Summit last week.