Redesign

CAISO Credits Lower Gas Prices for Decreased Grid Costs

Even with an unprecedented heat storm and resource-consuming revisions to its long-awaited market redesign, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) lowered its operating costs substantially for a fifth consecutive year in 2006, according to the grid operator’s annual report. Moderating natural gas prices were cited as one of the drivers.

August 20, 2007

FERC’s New Power Market Redesign Means Changes in Gas Use

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Wednesday moved a step closer to the creation of a unified open access electric power market, to parallel the one for natural gas, voting on the near final version of its standard market design (SMD) proposal to “remedy undue discrimination in the use of the interstate transmission system and give the nation the benefits of a truly competitive bulk power system.”

August 1, 2002