Topics in the text: Reliability and curtailment · Connecting load and generation · Filing procedure
State authority · PDF pp. 2–7
The California Energy Commission forecasts demand, the utilities commission sets the resource portfolio, and CAISO tests whether transmission can deliver it.
planning process incorporates the CEC's demand forecast and the CPUC's resource portfolios PDF p. 6
Transmission capacity · PDF pp. 8–13
CAISO reports that its 2025 to 2026 planning studies examined portfolios with another 40 GW over ten years. Building generation only helps if developers can connect it and deliver the power.
Generation that cannot reach load is generation in name only. PDF p. 12
Stakeholder timetable · PDF pp. 14–15
In July, CAISO outlined two rounds of proposals and workshops ahead of its targeted November filing. This was its schedule, not evidence that each milestone was met.
a straw proposal in August and draft final proposal in September PDF p. 15
Elliot Mainzer, CAISO president and CEO, quoted by APPA · Related public statement
The July report scheduled a response for the fall. After the October board action, Mainzer said CAISO expected the proposed rules to improve operational awareness and reduce cost shifts. The board action did not itself change a FERC tariff.
October 28, board actionInterconnection · PDF pp. 15–18
CAISO describes how scoring requests by readiness narrowed the projects in its cluster study. It placed those queue changes alongside its large-load proceeding.
focus its cluster 15 interconnection study on first-ready projects PDF p. 17
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