Electric Market Enthusiasm pt. 2: Elliot Mainzer on Governance, Transmission, and Price Formation

Elliot Mainzer, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the California Independent System Operator (ISO), joined Crystal Ball, Matt Schroettnig, and Paul Dockery for the second installation of our Electric Market Enthusiasm series. We try to keep it light while discussing governance, transmission, price formation, stakeholder engagement, and CAISO’s new five year strategic plan. To break up the heavy topics we play an intermission game!

05:16 - newly released 5 year Strategic Plan

14:27 - Governance, legislative change, and Concurrent Resolution 188 introduced by Assembly member Chris Holden, also, Elliot’s TEDx1

27:27 - an Intermission Game called “better know an RTO CEO by getting them to reveal a preference of competing energy-interpreted gifs in a championship bracket” 

40:36 - Transmission Planning and Elliot’s “WEIM Transfer Paths” infographic

51:27 - High beams on market evolution and price formation2

1:06:14 - the Duke Silver of Western Power Markets

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1 TEDxPortland 2011 - Elliot Mainzer - The Power Grid

2 Mays, Jacob and Jenkins, Jesse, Electricity Markets under Deep Decarbonization (April 19, 2022). USAEE Working Paper No. 22-550, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4087528 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.408752

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