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Category: Transmission

  
  April 25, 2024
Transmission

Taking the Long View: The ISO’s Collaborative Approach to Transmission Planning & Coordination

A commonly heard refrain during these transformational times in the power industry is “No transition without transmission.”

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  April 2, 2024
Transmission

Offshore wind big part of ISO’s 2023-2024 Transmission Plan

The California Independent System Operator (ISO) has posted a draft of its 2023-2024 Transmission Plan, recommending 26 new projects ...

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  October 10, 2023
Leadership, Markets, Operations, Transmission

Working with stakeholders toward a “significantly reformed interconnection process”

Since working with stakeholders to identify the best ways to address overheated interconnection queues in 2022 and 2023, the ...

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Convo   September 21, 2023
Leadership, Summer conditions, Transmission

Debut of Energy Matters Conversations, a new ISO communications vehicle

When we launched the California Independent System Operator’sISO’s Energy Matters Blog in June of 2021, we wanted to provide new ...

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  July 24, 2023
Transmission

A big step forward on transmission infrastructure

As anyone in the electricity business knows, planning, siting, permitting, financing and building transmission infrastructure ...

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  June 28, 2023
Transmission

Working with stakeholders to find the right improvements on interconnections

Last December, when the California ISO signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the state’s two principal energy entities ...

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  April 3, 2023
Transmission

Draft 2022-2023 Transmission Plan posted

Today, the California Independent System Operator (ISO) posted a draft of its 2022-2023 Transmission Plan. The plan reflects a more  ...

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  March 16, 2023
Transmission, Regulatory

A better way to address interconnections

With the state’s vastly accelerated pace of new resources that need to be connected to the grid and the more than doubling of interconnection ...

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  February 23, 2023
Transmission, Leadership, Regulatory

An agreement regarding transmission and resource planning and implementation

Alice Reynolds, president of the California Public Utilities Commission; David Hochschild, chair of the California Energy Commission …

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  December 1, 2022
Operations, Transmission

A conversation about transmission

“If you like [renewable] generation, you need to love transmission.” Joanne Serina ...

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  October 6, 2022
Transmission, Inside the California ISO

Interconnection queue reforms going to ISO Board

Much of the impetus for the ISO’s initiative to improve its interconnection queue process can be found in the numbers, which show 2,273 ...

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  August 8, 2022
Transmission, Inside the ISO

Offshore wind could boost California’s transition towards clean-energy future

In May of 2021, the vision for California’s clean-energy future came more sharply into focus when Gov. Gavin Newsom and the administration …

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  March 24, 2022
Transmission

2021-22 Transmission Plan approved by ISO Board

Each year, the California ISO conducts its transmission planning process to identify potential system limitations ...

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  February 3, 2022
Transmission

Thinking more proactively about the grid’s long-term needs - Our first-ever 20-Year Transmission ...

Every year, the California Independent System Operator conducts its annual transmission analysis, providing an update ...

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  July 22, 2021
Transmission, Leadership

Stakeholder call on 20-Year Transmission Outlook set for Tuesday, July 27

When the ISO kicked off its new 20-Year Transmission Outlook planning process in May it signaled a growing recognition ...

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  July 13, 2021
Transmission

Collaboration highlighted at stakeholder workshop on accessing the CAISO grid

Elliot Mainzer, president and chief executive officer of the California Independent System Operator, and Marybel Batjer, president of the ...

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