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The CMRC reported the following outages for today (12/17 Daily Report): Due to multiple Transmission outages in the ISO Control area they have declared a Restricted Maintenance Operation from 0600-2159 PST today. Other Comments: The Pinto Phase Shifter is out of service due to possible oil leaks with no ETR. Monday’s Notable Events: At 0800 MST the Laramie River-DJ 230-kV Line relayed to permanent fault. At 1905 MST the line was back in service. At 1042 PST the Midway-Vincent #3 500-kV Line relayed with the Midway-Vincent #1 line out of service for scheduled work. At 1125 the Midway-Vincent #1 Line...

Other Comments: On Friday 12/13/02 the CISO was deficient in spinning reserves to a magnitude of 250 MW less than required from 1634 to 1701. On Saturday 12/14/02 PG&E reported an estimated 150,000 customers without power due to a winter storm with approximately 20,000 customers related to Transmission outages and 130,000 customers related to Distribution outages. At 1705 PG&E revised this report to 241,212 customers out of power. This morning at 0730 PST PG&E reported 331,000 customers out of power. At 0228 PST this morning AVA reported the North Lewiston-Walla Walla 230-kV line relayed to lockout. At 0315 PST IPCO...

By Chris Baltimore WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - U.S. energy regulators on Monday urged California's transmission grid operator not to delay redesigning its system despite a lack of consensus on some issues among utilities, marketers and industrial users. The California Independent System Operator (ISO), which ran the state's electricity market during the state's power crisis of 2000-01, has repeatedly clashed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over how the Western wholesale electricity market should be reformed. At a technical conference, FERC staff signaled their frustration at delays that have hindered California's redesign process. Earlier this month, the FERC postponed...

Sunday’s Notable Events: From 1857 to 1917, the California ISO was deficient in spinning reserve, to a maximum of 190 MW.

On Halloween, the California Independent System Operator offered the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission only a few treats, putting in place some parts of the market redesign. It also warned FERC it cannot meet the deadline for having the day-ahead market revamp in place. "Happy Halloween and remember to increase your price cap. Or so the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission might have said to trick-or-treaters last week, as the California ISO's new market rules went into effect Oct. 31. One element of the FERC's order, which previously provoked angry responses from California politicians, increased the bid cap to $250/MWH." --snip-- In...

NEW YORK -- The organization that runs California's electricity transmission system has substantiated Duke Energy Corp.'s claim that all of its generating capacity in the state was producing power, providing other services or unavailable because of predisclosed outages on May 8, 2001, undermining a charge that Duke kept capacity off line that day even as some customers had their power cut.The California Independent System Operator, in an analysis undertaken at the request of a state senator and released late Friday, also raised broader questions about the report by the California Public Utilities Commission, which concluded last month that most of...

WECC Daily Report of System StatusOther Comments: CISO operated below reliability criteria for spinning reserve from 1334 to 1358 yesterday, to a minimum reserve level of 208 MW below the required level due to market entities deviating from schedule in an attempt to chase market clearing price.Monday’s Notable Events: PDCI Pole #3 blocked (restarts set to zero for hold order), Fort Rock series capacitors inserted and Grand Coulee Transit Excitation Boost operated. COI went over the limit of 3780 MW north to south @ 1112. BPA and CISO ramped in counter schedules for a total of 950 MW and COI...

<p>FOLSOM The man appointed by Gov. Gray Davis to act as traffic cop on California's electricity grid attacked federal regulators Thursday and demanded authority to fine rules breakers in the state's power markets.</p> <p>The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission can't be trusted to protect consumers, and should clear the way for state officials to act against power sellers, said Michael Kahn, board chairman of the California Independent System Operator. "It's not an acceptable alternative to ask FERC if we're being screwed," he said at a board meeting as some power sellers fidgeted in the audience, precluded by board rules from speaking.</p>

Report: State grid operator behind plant's output swingsAssociated Press LOS ANGELES ---- The operator of the state's power grid has acknowledged that it was responsible for swings in production at a San Diego County power plant that Gov. Gray Davis held as an example of price gouging by out-of-state energy companies. The Los Angeles Times and Charlotte Observer reported Sunday that the California Independent System Operator told its oversight board that records showed Duke Energy was following orders to help balance the grid and not driving up prices. Three former workers at Duke Energy's Chula Vista plant told state...

<p>The vote to buck a federal order follows a call by Gov. Davis to resist what he calls a 'hostile takeover.'</p> <p>After hearing Gov. Gray Davis' call to protect California consumers and its electric grid, the state Independent System Operator Wednesday voted to fight a federal order to replace its board with one free of state control.</p>

<p>Sacramento, California, Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- California's top attorney said the state can't comply with a demand by U.S. energy regulators to change the makeup of the governing board of the state's power-grid agency, and may sue to halt the order.</p>

WASHINGTON - Gov. Gray Davis and federal energy regulators are once again on a collision course, this time over who will govern the state's power grid. Davis is balking at a recent federal order that would disband the board he appointed to oversee the California Independent System Operator, which manages the grid. It would be replaced by a board ostensibly "independent of market participants," under the order by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. While the clash lacks the sizzle of Davis' previous confrontations with FERC over electricity price controls and refunds from power sellers accused of gouging, it goes to...

Claiming the California's Independent System Operator has failed the state's energy users and suppliers, the Federal Regulatory Commission has declared its intention to unilaterally overhaul California's state-controlled transmission-grid operator. The move is a hard slap in the face to Gov. Gray Davis and his efforts to keep some kind of state control over its electricity transmission grid system, FERC says California needs to fully integrate its transmission system with the rest of the western United States in order to increase efficiency and the easy flow of electricity. "The current operation of the California transmission grid serves only to prolong, if...

<p>Folsom, California, July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Dynegy Inc., Williams Cos. and 10 other electricity suppliers were fined $122.1 million for failing to deliver enough supply during California's energy crisis in 2000 and 2001, the agency that manages the state's power grid said.</p>

In sheaves of responses to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's request for details of trading strategies, nearly all power sellers denied doing anything like Enron-style market manipulations. However, some said they made questionable moves in response to requests from the California Independent System Operator. (free portion ends here..) Cal-ISO is increasingly taking criticism for allegedly manipulating itw own market for the sake of ensuring reliability....... In several instances, companies told FERC they did not exactly follow the rules, but their actions were due to Cal_ISO requests. ?On some occasions during the relevant period, [we] scheduled small amounts of excess load...