The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has been implementing multiple measures to help ensure grid reliability during the summer months, following a record-breaking heatwave in the state in 2020 that forced the California Independent System Operator to initiate outages.
In the wake of the blackouts, the agency opened a proceeding to ensure adequate energy supply for the summer of 2021, and then extended that effort to the summers of 2022 and 2023. CPUC analysis has indicated that between 2,000 MW to 3,000 MW of new resources will help address grid reliability during extreme circumstances in 2022 and 2023, the commission noted in a press release.
