From the article:
- The California Independent System Operator (ISO) board of governors has released its three-year strategic grid plan, Building a Sustainable Energy Future 2014-2016 Strategic Plan, which focuses on transforming the high-voltage transmission grid into a secure digital network capable of integrating more demand response, energy efficiency, renewable energy resources and advanced energy storage.
- About 7,000 megawatts (MW) may go offline over the next few years and the ISO wants to make the transition with flexible resources that can help put more renewables on the grid.
- Calif. ISO highlighted its three core strategies: leading the transition to renewable energy, maintaining reliability during industry transformation and leading regional collaboration. Harnessing the region's geographic diversityand expanding the energy imbalance market will be key to those goals.
From the article:
“Our expanded energy imbalance market will give the West a new mechanism to add the operational flexibility needed to orchestrate an increasingly green and efficient regional network,” said Chairman Foster.