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A Market View from The Operating Room

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Anyone who doubts the regional nature of electric operation in the West, and how electric operation is well integrated throughout the western region with no respect to state boundaries, must read this article. Political and Regulatory bodies have a legitimate interest in maintaining some local control over the parts of the electrical industry that are under their jurisdiction, but they must also consider the physical and technical realities of our regionally interconnected grid, and the inherent benefits of closer cooperation, coordination and communication within an interconnected region. Three years after the California energy crisis, and following the recent U.S. Midwest, and Italian blackouts, there is a renewed emphasis on how to maintain reliability under various market design protocols that may create seams problems and may directly or indirectly cause a reliability concern.

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