Getting Green: What Logjam Takes Priority? Distribution or Transmission?
I must admit I was a little baffled when new legislation was passed into law six months ago to clear the customer interconnection backups at…
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Fact Not Fiction!
As a former PG&E employee living in PG&E territory, I frequently get asked the same question from friends, colleagues, and neighbors, “What is going on…
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Tied Up in Nots
Time to Get Real. With the CAISO past the quarter century mark, it is time to assess the progress made toward regional expansion. Although I…
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Part II: Reflecting on CAISO’s 25th Anniversary
Soon will be the silver anniversary of the California ISO. It was 25 years ago, on March 31, 1998, that the ISO ushered in a…
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Reflecting on CAISO’s 25th Anniversary
Soon will be the silver anniversary of the California ISO. It was 25 years ago, on March 31, 1998, that the ISO ushered in a…
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Don’t count on batteries to be available when they are most needed!
Hybrid and Co-Located Resources The CAISO has two options for representing resources that combine variable energy resources (VERs) with battery energy storage systems (BESS), which…
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The deck is stacked
With California’s heathy appetite for renewables and the shortage of energy and capacity, as demonstrated last August, one might ask why generation development is not…
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It’s time for a serious overhaul
Despite tremendous efforts taken by the ISO, State agencies and other stakeholders to prevent energy and capacity shortfalls like we saw in August 2020, the…
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News Flash! “Intermittency” means “Interruption or periodic stopping.”
The lack of a long-term capacity market—as a carryover from the central generation planning function performed by vertically integrated utilities (IOUs) prior to restructuring has…
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Not Again!
The year 2020 might feel like nothing we have experienced before, but to many of us seasoned grid operators, it felt like déjà vu when…
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