California ISO 2024 Year in Review

2024 saw more shared progress on critical strategic objectives for grid reliability

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Upcoming calendar

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2024-2025 Transmission Planning Process Long-term LCR

Yelena Kopylov-Alford, ykopylovalford@caiso.com 

Web and audio participation information

Step 1: join web conference at https://caiso.webex.com/caiso/onstage/g.php?MTID=edd42b03a96d3c527ee8c11443f82cf46

Step 2: connect audio by selecting computer audio or selecting call me and enter your phone number

Audio only participation: call 1-844-621-3956, access code: 24804587758

Technical support: call Intellor at 1-301-250-7202

Related information

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/RecurringStakeholderProcesses/2024-2025-Transmission-planning-process 

Deadline
Comments due - Resource Adequacy Modeling and Program Design Modeling Workshop

Christina Guimera, cguimera@caiso.com 

Please use the stakeholder Commenting Tool to submit comments on this topic to the California ISO.

Related information: https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/StakeholderInitiatives/Resource-adequacy-modeling-and-program-design 

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Storage Design and Modeling Initiative

Brenda Marquez, bmarquez@caiso.com 

Web and audio participation information

Step 1: join web conference at https://caiso.webex.com/mw3300/mywebex/default.do 

Step 2: connect audio by selecting computer audio or selecting call me and enter your phone number

Audio only participation: call 1-844-621-3956, access code: 24935021301

Technical support: call Intellor at 1-301-250-7202

Related information

Storage Design and Modeling initiative webpage

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Day-Ahead Market Enhancements Configurable Parameters

Christina Guimera, cguimera@caiso.com 

Web and audio participation information

Step 1: join web conference at https://caiso.webex.com/caiso/onstage/g.php?MTID=ec8cfe062f37a2b2606c9a93baca93fc7

Step 2: connect audio by selecting computer audio or selecting call me and enter your phone number

Audio only participation: call 1-844-621-3956, access code: 24920370236

Technical support: call Intellor at 1-301-250-7202

Related information

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/StakeholderInitiatives/Day-ahead-market-enhancements 

Deadline
Comments due - Congestion Revenue Rights Enhancements Working Group

Brenda Marquez, bmarquez@caiso.com 

Please use the stakeholder Commenting Tool to submit comments on this topic to the California ISO.

Related information: https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/StakeholderInitiatives/Congestion-revenue-rights-enhancements   

 

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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iconProduct and services

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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iconResource adequacy

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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Market Performance and Planning Forum Q4

Join us on Dec. 12, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. to review key market outcomes, discuss market performance issues, along with an overview of topics covered in the ISO Market update conference calls.

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WEM Governing Body, Joint ISO Board of Governors, and ISO Board of Governors Meetings
 

Join us for the WEM Governing Body, Joint ISO Board of Governors, and ISO Board of Governors Meetings on Dec. 17-19, 2024. Please see the schedule for each daily agenda.  

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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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