Two years ago this week, the CAISO along with its neighboring balancing authorities in the West suffered a heat storm that caused quite a commotion. In fact, on this same day in 2022 the CAISO had a wee bit of load shedding that was the result of a miscommunication between the Folsom control center and one of the transmission-dependent load-serving entities in Northern California. Separately, the Governor’s office called for statewide emergency voluntary demand reductions. It was one of those days now inscribed in our history.
Yesterday it was bloody hot across a fair bit of the region but the upper northwest reaches were spared the worst. Load centers in California, Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona sizzled but the grids held up … so far.
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