Strengthening Regional Governance: insights from the 2025 Regional Issues Forum enhancement discussion paper and stakeholder dialogue

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Budget and Grid Management Charge - 2026

Yelena Kopylov-Alford, YKOPYLOVALFORD@caiso.com

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https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/RecurringStakeholderProcesses/Budget-Grid-Management-Charge-2026 

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Greenhouse Gas Coordination Working Group

Christina Guimera, cguimera@caiso.com 

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https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/StakeholderInitiatives/Greenhouse-gas-coordination-working-group 

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Release User Group Forum

Trang Vo at tvo@caiso.com or (916) 673-8120

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https://www.caiso.com/meetings-events/meetings#RUG

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BPM Change Management Proposed Revision Request Review

Nicole Hines, 916-597-8108, BPM_CM@caiso.com 

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Participating with the ISO

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WEIM is a wholesale energy trading market for the West. Our scalable and flexible platform allows entities to join in a timeframe that works for their business.

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EDAM will build on the economic, reliability, and environmental benefits of the Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM) by optimizing the use of existing transmission and resources in the much larger day-ahead timeframe across an expanded footprint.

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The ISO's RC West is the Reliability Coordinator (RC) of record for many balancing authorities and transmission operators in the western United States. An RC oversees grid compliance with federal and regional grid standards, and can determine measures to prevent or mitigate system emergencies in day-ahead or real-time operations.

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Confidential information and data communicated between the ISO and its participants during the course of planning and market activities are protected through robust systems and application security. All systems and applications, except OASIS, require an User Access Administrator (UAA) to grant access and removal.

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The ISO wholesale energy market is comprised of distinct day-ahead and real-time processes. The energy products and services traded in our market allow us to meet reliability needs and serve load. The market also offers services in which qualified entities can buy and sell congestion revenue rights and engage in convergence bidding activities.

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The reliability requirements and resource adequacy programs provide deliverability criteria that each load serving entity must meet, and provide rules for counting resources that must be made available to the ISO. The ISO reliability requirements program is intended to complement the state's efforts to implement resource adequacy programs.

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ISO’s 2024-2025 Transmission Plan

The ISO’s Board of Governors approved the updated transmission plan, recommending 31 infrastructure projects to help meet projected load growth and changing grid conditions. 

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Summer Loads and Resources Assessment

The 2025 Summer Assessment projects sufficient resources, but extreme conditions can still pose risks.

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About the California ISO

The ISO manages the flow of electricity across high-voltage, long-distance power lines that make up 80 percent of California's and a small part of Nevada's grid. The nonprofit public benefit corporation also operates a competitive wholesale energy market, and conducts transmission planning to identify grid expansion needs.

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