With increasing impacts from climate change, western states are in need of robust and reliable grid integration. To…
Western electricity market turns 10 years old and surpasses $6 billion in savings. Kelsie Gomanie Advocate In 2014,…
Federal regulators have largely approved a new electricity market that will help enhance system reliability, lower costs to…
This blog is co-authored with NRDC expert Peter Miller. The 2022–2023 Transmission Plan from the California Independent System Operator (CAISO)…
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced his intention to work with the “legislature, California stakeholders, and our partners in other…
Integrating utilities across the western United States into a single, organized power market is the best way to…
CAISO• West
The Bill That Could Connect California to Sun, Wind, and Savings Across the West
April 21, 2023The fragmented balancing of electricity delivery throughout western states may get one step closer to becoming integrated next…
The Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP), which was recently approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, is designed to provide…
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Western Electricity Market Approval Points to Decarbonization and Consumer Savings
February 2, 2023The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) just took an important next step toward integrating the western grid to…
With proposals to expand power market services to western states advancing on two fronts, utilities from Oregon to…
After a year of record-breaking heat waves, drought, and flooding, here’s some good news for the western United States:…
Linking together the electricity grids of 11 western states into one Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) could create hundreds…