- Jun 23
Catch Some Z's
Doing the Same thing Over and Over but Expecting Different Results By Ziad Alaywan, P.E. California’s goal to generate 100% clean power...
- Apr 21
Tied Up in Nots
Time to Get Real. With the CAISO past the quarter century mark, it is time to assess the progress made toward regional expansion. Although
- Feb 17
Reflecting on CAISO’s 25th Anniversary
By Ziad Alaywan P.E. Soon will be the silver anniversary of the California ISO. It was 25 years ago, on March 31, 1998, that the ISO...
- Jan 10
Winter in California reveals a hidden Grid problem!
By Ziad Alaywan, P.E. We all know that wind and solar are intermittent resources, with energy production dependent upon the sun shining...
- Jan 10
Part II: Reflecting on CAISO’s 25th Anniversary
By Ziad Alaywan P.E. Soon will be the silver anniversary of the California ISO. It was 25 years ago, on March 31, 1998, that the ISO...
- Jun 30, 2022
Don’t count on batteries to be available when they are most needed!
By Ziad Alaywan, P.E. Hybrid and Co-Located Resources The CAISO has two options for representing resources that combine variable energy...
- May 30, 2022
What is the point?
By Ziad Alaywan, P.E. The Congestion Revenue Right (CRR) is a feature of the ISO markets that is used to hedge transmission congestion....
- Apr 30, 2022
The deck is stacked
By Ziad Alaywan, P.E. With California’s heathy appetite for renewables and the shortage of energy and capacity, as demonstrated last...
- Mar 30, 2022
It’s time for a serious overhaul
By Ziad Alaywan, P.E. Despite tremendous efforts taken by the ISO, State agencies and other stakeholders to prevent energy and capacity...
- Feb 20, 2022
News Flash! “Intermittency” means “Interruption or periodic stopping.”
By Ziad Alaywan, P.E. The lack of a long-term capacity market—as a carryover from the central generation planning function performed by...
- Jan 30, 2022
Not Again!
By Ziad Alaywan, P.E. The year 2020 might feel like nothing we have experienced before, but to many of us seasoned grid operators, it...
- Jan 19, 2022
NewSun Cascade Development Services LLC Retains ZGlobal to Help Assess Project Feasibility
ZG is the scheduling coordinator for NewSun, which is developing multiple projects (roughly 600 MW of solar and or storage) in central...