2024 Stakeholder Symposium - register today!

The event kicks off with a networking event the evening of Oct. 29 at the Kimpton-Sawyer hotel followed by the program on Oct. 30 at the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center. 

Visit the event website for details and to register

California ISO

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Upcoming calendar

Online
Cancelled Technical User Group
Contact: Indu Nambiar at inambiar@caiso.com or 916-351-2200
Technical user group meeting participation information, presentations and videos are available on the Developer Portal at https://developer.caiso.com/Pages/Meetings/technical-user-group.aspx (developer account required).
Call Online
Inter-SC Trades in Regional Markets

Christina Guimera at Cguimera@caiso.com 

Web and audio participation information

Step 1: join web conference at https://caiso.webex.com/caiso/onstage/g.php?MTID=eb949bd023d69f5f8877a3a6bb08fad62

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: 24971932587

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

Related information

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/StakeholderInitiatives/Inter-SC-Trades-in-Regional-Markets 

Online
Settlement User Group

Massih Ahmadi at mahmadi@caiso.com or (916) 316-5537

Participation information

By phone: call 1-844-621-3956 or 1-650-479-3208 (toll), access code: 961 854 046

By web: join web conference at https://caiso.webex.com/meet/settlementuser, meeting number: 961 854 046

Call Online
Storage Bid Cost Recovery and Default Energy Bids Enhancements - Revised Straw Proposal

Brenda Marquez at bmarquez@caiso.com 

Web and audio participation information

Step 1: join web conference at https://caiso.webex.com/caiso/onstage/g.php?MTID=eda688872d731585dbd993c5c4994613f

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: 24892122312

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

Related information

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/StakeholderInitiatives/storage-bid-cost-recovery-and-default-energy-bids-enhancements 

 

Participating with the ISO

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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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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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Greenhouse Gas Coordination Working Group

The Greenhouse Gas Coordination working group will host a hybrid meeting on Sep 19, 2024. Participate in person at the ISO, or virtually. The focus of this group is on developing durable electricity market solutions for climate policies across the West. 

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Join us for the Resource Interconnection Standards Fair 
 

Sept. 17, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: California ISO, Folsom, CA
 

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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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