Western regional organization (RO)
The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative still grapples with political uncertainties and governance concerns despite efforts to fix those issues, proponents of SPP’s Markets+ contended.
The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative received a significant financial boost when DOE awarded nearly $1 million to underwrite its efforts to establish a Western “regional organization” to oversee CAISO’s WEIM and EDAM.
The Pathways Step 2 proposal offers a blueprint for divvying up functions between CAISO and the RO that backers envision will provide an independent framework for governing the ISO’s Western markets.
A representative of one of the staunchest opponents of past efforts to transform CAISO into an RTO said his labor union plans to sponsor the legislation needed to implement the “Step 2” proposal of the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative.
The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative has revised its “regional organization” stakeholder process proposal to expand the size of a key stakeholder committee and boost representation for some groups.
The CAISO Board of Governors and Western Energy Markets Governing Body passed two proposals that address different issues within Western markets.
Pathways released its Step 2 draft proposal for dividing up functions between CAISO and the new “regional organization” that initiative backers are seeking to create to oversee the ISO’s Western real-time and day-ahead markets.
Stakeholder comments filed with the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative illustrate the complexity of building the new kind of Western regional organization envisioned by backers of the effort.
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