A coalition of clean energy, business & environmental advocates committed to expanding #CleanEnergy adoption through regional cooperation across the West.
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Growing risk of blackouts threatens health, lives & livelihoods in CA. Check out this @SacBee_News article about a new @California_ISO report showing how a regional energy grid:
✅Lowers #EnergyCosts
✅Increases #GridReliability
✅Reduces #CarbonEmissions
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The West's day ahead energy market is growing!
We are honored to learn that @IdahoPower and @PortlandGeneral have indicated their preference to participate in the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market (EDAM), which would increase reliability and benefits to customers. Learn more about the announcements: ow.ly/4iqi50QZ9za
Regionalization gets results. Since 2014, @California_ISO reports the West's real-time energy market caused more than $5B in benefits & cut GHGs an amount equal to removing some 194,597 cars from the road for a year. More regionalization = more results. caiso.com/Documents/weim-ben…
Exciting to see some opponents of California's prior attempts at energy regionalization shift and engage in the Pathways Initiative! rtoinsider.com/68849-legisla…
ICYMI: the Pathways Initiative released for comment a framework to evaluate the legal & operational questions for different energy regionalization options in the West. Comment period ends January 12th. Send to Comments@WestWidePathwaysInitiative.org.
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Western energy regionalization is a job creator! More regionalization through the Pathways Initiative will also help reduce curtailment impacting clean energy projects across California, confront runaway energy costs & prevent blackouts.
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Grid competition in the West threatens CA’s energy security. SPP expansion comes at the expense of existing @California_ISO market structures that serve over 80% of the Western Interconnection, which the Pathways Initiative aims to build on.
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ICYMI: the Pathways Initiative's 11/17 virtual stakeholder meeting is now available online. Discussion addressed the mission, admin plan, threshold research questions, and plans for communications & outreach. youtu.be/Hm3LjU3rUk0?feature…
By creating a larger market for CA's clean energy generators & aiding the construction of interstate transmission lines to export surplus power, a western RTO would help ease clean energy traffic & create the largest green jobs boom in history.
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What's the latest in ongoing efforts to broaden energy regionalization across the West? Check out this update about the Pathways Initiative.
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Earlier this month, Portugal ran on 💯% renewable energy for 6 days in a row with a diversity of power sources. A western RTO would make it easier, cheaper for CA to have the mix of power sources needed to run on 💯% clean energy every day.
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ICYMI ahead of the Pathways Initiative stakeholder meeting tomorrow, check out:
✅The mission & charter of the Launch Committee
✅Launch Committee membership, with Lights on CA member @kstaks06 of Western Freedom serving as co-chair.
Details here. westernenergyboard.org/wwgpi…
The West's real-time energy market saved participants $462.05 million during the 3Q of this year, with $4.66 billion in total savings since 2014. A more affordable, reliable clean energy future is built with an expanded day-ahead market and regional RTO.
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CA's transition to a clean energy future is hamstrung by curtailment. Transmission upgrades and an expansion of regional energy markets through an RTO will help clean energy generators export surplus power to a larger customer base.
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California is not on pace to reach its 2030 emissions target, let alone achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. The fastest, cheapest options for operating on 100% clean energy come through creating a western RTO. The clock is ticking...
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Big picture thinking is needed to stop scrambling with old power plants and unleash CA’s clean energy potential. A western RTO provides the fastest, cheapest options to build an energy grid capable of producing the affordable, reliable clean power we need.
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Study reminds us of what we already know: the bigger the footprint, the bigger the benefits. A unified western energy market has the most benefits. Division increases costs. The best outcome for consumers is clearly a single market.
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The hottest September on record follows the hottest August & hottest July. CA needs a power grid capable of providing affordable, reliable clean energy while coping with the strains that come with advancing climate change. #RTO
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Important discussions about the future of western energy regionalization start today at the meeting of the Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation & the Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body. Agenda & webinar information available here. westernenergyboard.org/fall-…
ICYMI: The Pathways Initiative responded to comments about creating an independent entity for market services across the West & released a "straw proposal" for the process ahead. As work begins, more clarity about goals needed. We support creating a #RTO.
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Grid competition from outside the West is weakening CA’s energy security. With no clear plan to create a western-led RTO & interest growing in other states, the vision vacuum is being filled by an AK-based RTO seeking to isolate CA in expanding West.
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