This week on Energy Unplugged, our Managing Director in Australia and California, Hugo Batten speaks to Guillermo Bautista Alderete, Director of Market Analysis and Forecasting at California’s system operator (CAISO). Hugo and Guillermo are also joined by Rowan von Spreckelsen, Aurora’s Head of Research in Australia and California. Guillermo has had a distinguished 15 years career at CAISO, having come out of academia at the University of Waterloo in Canada where he received a Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. 

Main topics include:

•The role of the system operator over the next 5 to 10 years in the policy and market design space
•The mechanisms that CAISO has introduced to help with the integration of renewables
•The impact of new technologies such as offshore wind and hydrogen on the California market 
•Batteries economics and saturation of ancillary markets

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