Singer IU practiced warm sharing for Children's Day 2025 The agency EDAM Entertainment said on the 5th "IU has donated a total of 150 million won under the name of 'IUanna' (IU+Uanna) to celebrate Children's Day." The donation will be used to improve the healthy growth and living environment of self-reliance-ready youth and children with disabilities The donation was 62 million won to "Eden Iville" and 90 million won to "Hansarang Village" and "Hansarang Disabled Children's Home." Donations from "Eden Iville" will be used to create spaces for self-reliance-ready youth and support gifts and events on Children's Day while donations from "Hansarang Village" and "Hansarang Disabled Child Care Center" will be used to improve the practical life of children with disabilities He is also famous for donating under the name of "IUanna" every year the youngest person to be named as the "30 Asian Donation Heroes" by Forbes in 2019 donated 200 million won in March to support large forest fires in the Gyeongsang region and improve the treatment of firefighters IU recently impressed by playing two roles perfectly in the Netflix series "Fully Believed" and is set to shoot her next film ※ This service is provided by machine translation tool This is not the RTO Insider site you are looking for.Unless it is There was a problem resetting your password The CPUC’s questions to CAISO show the agency will be carefully scrutinizing the proposed EDAM congestion revenue design to ensure California's interests aren't overlooked in the plan of New Mexico’s decision is the latest win for CAISO’s extended day-ahead market PNM is the latest utility to indicate it will join EDAM after comparing potential benefits to SPP’s planned day-ahead market NV Energy over the summer chose to join EDAM over Markets+. And a Brattle study published in August concluded New Mexico utilities would see millions more in annual benefits by joining the CAISO market “The higher benefit in EDAM is largely driven by increased opportunities to execute market-to-market transactions,” Brattle said The study pegged PNM’s potential annual benefits at $20.5 million if it participates in EDAM and $8 million in Markets+ "We know from our experience with the WEIM – which has provided New Mexico customers nearly $125 million in benefits since we joined in 2021 – coordination with other regional utilities can deliver substantial efficiencies and cost benefits for our customers,” Tarry said has seen benefits of approximately $19 million since joining the WEIM in 2023 according to the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission CAISO is "honored” that PNM announced its intent to join EDAM," Elliot Mainzer "We look forward to building on the proven track record of the Western Energy Imbalance Market to deliver even greater economic and reliability benefits to PNM customers.” Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Balancing Area of Northern California which includes the Sacramento Municipal Utility District have also indicated they will participate in EDAM In April, SPP said more than two dozen western entities had indicated their support for continued development of Markets+. Get the free daily newsletter read by industry experts The scheme would incentivize new gas and other “dispatchable” generation at the expense of renewables and batteries which constitute the vast majority of recent capacity additions in ERCOT California's state-run wildfire insurance fund was an industry-leading model Now investors and experts are voicing concerns about its potential collapse The free newsletter covering the top industry headlines He grew up on his family’s farm in Crane one of 7 siblings and attended Sidney High School Rick joined the Army at 17 years old and served for 4 years while stationed in Germany Not too long after returning home from the Army Linda Davidson (November 1965 to November 1990) Most of Rick’s working career was spent as a machinist for submarines at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton He achieved trainer status and traveled the states to learn new techniques to come back and teach other machinists He also obtained his realtor’s license and was skilled in construction work finishing the construction all by himself on a couple of the new homes he purchased with Linda Rick and his second wife Cheril Wendt met at a murder mystery party that she co-hosted They knew right away that they were a match and married on October 12th Rick loved spending time with Cheril’s two kids Cheril and Rick lived in Washington until they both retired it was then that they decided to move to Montana Rick loved the outdoors and spent a lot of time camping Rick was a search and rescue volunteer while living in Great Falls in the 1960s & early 1970s His love for adventure continued as he got his private pilot’s license in the mid-1970s and renewed it again years later after retiring He was a fan of long road trips to visit family or explore new places or to enjoy a local specialty meal or snack His biggest passion was flying Cesnas and attending air shows He loved and appreciated all aircraft and classic cars Rick loved to BBQ and could be seen grilling any local fresh catch or a steak in any type of weather especially Chevy Chase & Pink Panther movies as well as Foghorn Leghorn Loony Toons He lived frugally but donated to many charities He supported the Disabled Veterans of America Great Falls Rescue Mission and often gave cash to those in need Rick was preceded in death by his 4 sisters: Ethel Jimison & Dora O’Connor; and his parents Wilbert Edam & Tillie Schan Rick is survived by his spouse Cheril Edam his stepchildren Tracy Wendt and Brad Wendt his brothers Dale (Bev) Edam and Morris Edam his grandson Andrew Edam and his 3 great grandkids: Hunter CAISO's expedited effort to address a controversy over allocation of congestion revenues in EDAM shows how eager the ISO is to address stakeholder concerns that could hamper potential participants from joining the market BPA’s draft decision sets the stage for having two intertwined day-ahead markets across the West with complex seams between them The BPA’s decision will have a major effect on market development in the West It sells wholesale power from federal hydroelectric dams in the Northwest The federal power marketer also operates about 15,000 circuit miles of high-voltage transmission across the Northwest The BPA mainly sells its power to cooperative and municipal utilities In its draft decision, BPA rejected calls to wait for the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative to complete its effort to establish an independent governance framework for EDAM While a bill — SB 540 — was introduced in the California Legislature last month to implement the Pathways’ second phase it “limits the availability of full operational administrative independence by requiring that the market be operated by the ISO,” BPA said “Bonneville sees the legislation confirming California's continued policy influence over market design and outcomes.” BPA said production cost modeling showed that joining EDAM may provide the power marketer more financial benefits than joining Markets+ the decision on which market to join was never a purely quantitative decision “We have really significant beliefs about the importance of governance the importance of an open stakeholder process those are qualitative elements that we hold as very high priorities they will result in positive quantitative benefits,” Dibble said The competition between the backers of Markets+ and EDAM created better results for both market frameworks That competition would have been reduced if BPA had waited for the Pathways initiative to fully play out the Pathways framework doesn’t go far enough “We’re comparing [Pathways] to the ideal model which we believe we have already created in Markets+ Earlier this year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission conditionally approved Markets+ which SPP expects will begin operating in 2027 Tucson Electric Power and UniSource Energy Services are among utilities planning to join Markets+ There is limited transmission connectivity between the Northwest but the Markets+ supporters hope it will increase over time Markets+ offers a range of benefits, PSCo told the Colorado Public Service Commission in an application for permission to join the market Markets+ will have “a fully impartial and independent market operator providing confidence that all market operator actions will be for the benefit of all participants and stakeholders,” PSCo said The utility expects near-term cost savings for its customers will be “moderate,” but they could grow possibly by building additional transmission the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power the Balancing Authority of Northern California and Portland General Electric plan to join EDAM of New Mexico are leaning towards joining the CAISO-run market Disputed issues include transmission rights and how congestion revenue would be handled Advanced Energy United is disappointed by BPA failing to pause its decision-making process as called for by members of Congress and others a director for the clean energy trade group more balkanized market undermines the very affordability and reliability of clean energy resources that the region depends on,” Turner said BPA risks hitching its wagon to the wrong horse.” BPA’s decision will lead toward a bifurcated Western market that will be intermeshed with costly seams running all over the region the West could be an energy powerhouse for the nation but this decision threatens to put that vision out of reach,” he said The Public Power Council supports Bonneville’s decision “Markets+ also offers a cooperative and transparent framework ensuring that BPA and its customers have a strong voice in shaping market operations.” The projected price declines remain dependent on tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act The White House has not directed the commission to bolster coal-fired generation and the agency is eyeing reorganization possibilities The Powerex paper comes just as entities across the West are poised to commit to either CAISO's EDAM or SPP's Markets+ The EDAM congestion revenue issue appears to be yet another proxy in the competition between the CAISO market and SPP's Markets+ as a handful of Western utilities remain uncommitted to a day-ahead market choice CAISO is moving quickly to get approval for new rules for how EDAM will allocate congestion revenues as more utilities move to revise their transmission tariffs to reflect their participation in the market The Brattle study shows what California electricity customers could possibly gain from allowing their state to relinquish some control over CAISO's markets The 'market expert' for the Western Energy Markets Governing Body added yet another voice to those who've acknowledged the complexity of dealing with congestion revenues in CAISO's EDAM CAISO’s launch of the Extended Day-Ahead Market will not spell the end of a Western real-time-only offering from the ISO CAISO CEO Elliot Mainzer's letter to BPA appears intended to dispel any confusion over whether Western Energy Imbalance Market participants will be forced to join the Extended Day-Ahead Market FERC approved CAISO’s proposal for implementing the Extended Day-Ahead Market “access charge” within its own balancing authority area CAISO's approved treatment of the EDAM access charge framework could provide a qualified model for other EDAM entities that will need to seek FERC approval of their application of the rules New findings from a much-anticipated study have “not shifted” BPA's staff recommendation that the agency choose SPP’s Markets+ over CAISO’s — despite results showing greater economic benefits from EDAM E3's latest day-ahead market benefits study for BPA is likely to provide fodder for EDAM supporters and turn up the heat on the already contentious debate over which market the agency should join The New Mexico utility announced its intention to join CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market extending EDAM’s reach farther into the Desert Southwest in its latest victory over SPP’s Markets+ PNM's decision marks an important victory for CAISO because it extends the EDAM deep into the Southwest and further limits potential transmission connectivity for SPP's Markets+ My name is Edam and I am the Maui Humane Society's Pet of the Week I’m a 5-year-old sweetheart who was rescued by the Coast Guard in Wainapanapa State Park back in May 2023 I've been hanging out with my amazing foster family for almost two years now They say that I’m as lovable as cheese and as sweet as pie I like curling up in tiny dog beds instead of my own big one and I don’t mind sharing it with the keiki either galloping on the beach and chewing on sticks know my basic commands and I’m eager to please Come meet me — I promise I’ll steal your heart The Pet of the Week is submitted by the Maui Humane Society to promote adoptions at the Maui Animal Shelter and Adoption Center. For more information or to make an appointment, call (808) 877-3680, ext. 3, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday or visit MauiHumaneSociety.org A grant information session for Maui County’s recycling grants program will be at 2 p.m In light of increased property values driving up tax payments the Maui County Council’s budget committee has .. Copyright © 2025 Maui News Publishing Company LTD | https://www.mauinews.com | 100 Mahalani Street BANC's commitment to formally join CAISO's Extended Day-Ahead Market moves the ISO closer to implementing the Pathways Initiative's 'Step 1' plan to give the Western Energy Markets Governing Body 'primary' authority over the market WAPA's decision to allow its Sierra Nevada region to move ahead with EDAM continues the momentum for CAISO in its competition with SPP's Markets+ The questions raised by the New Mexico commissioners signal that El Paso Energy's Markets+ decision could face increased regulatory scrutiny in the future the announcement by the nation's largest municipal utility notches a key victory for CAISO's EDAM after four Arizona utilities recently signaled their intention to join SPP's Markets+ The factors driving BANC's day-ahead market decision could influence those utilities still attempting to choose between CAISO's EDAM and SPP's Markets+ Powerex's contention regarding PacifiCorp's tariff change could open up a new front in the increasingly contentious debate between EDAM and Markets+ supporters As one of the first participants in CAISO's EDAM PGE's preparations for joining the market are likely to be among the more complicated as the ISO refines the process over time The updated study suggests to EDAM supporters the market's economic benefits will grow significantly as it attracts more participants The results also could help sway some Western entities still undecided about which day-ahead market to join CAISO's consideration of implementing fast-start pricing into the Extended Day-Ahead Market could affect whether entities across the West choose to join EDAM or SPP's Markets+ Some sources have told RTO Insider that SB 540 is more prescriptive than they expected but a certain level of detail might be necessary to move the bill through the legislature and avoid the fate of previous failed attempts to 'regionalize' CAISO As the competition between CAISO and SPP's day-ahead markets continues to unfold Arizona G&T Cooperative's pursuit of a study outlining the benefits of CAISO's Extended Day-Ahead Market could be a proxy for motivating the Western Area Power Administration to join EDAM PacifiCorp and Portland General Electric will be the first utilities to start trading in EDAM in 2026 sure to be contested by Markets+ supporters shows BPA and the Northwest gaining much more from joining EDAM The agency's choice of a day-ahead market will be key to determining the future market landscape in the West “This organization can evolve to offer the full range of [regional transmission organization] services,” Brian Turner The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative is proposing a regional organization to oversee the Western Energy Imbalance Market and the Extended Day Ahead Market “This proposal breaks through a significant barrier and enables the additional progress for electricity markets through voluntary market structures that the West has been working towards for decades,” the initiative’s launch committee said in its proposal released Sept. 26 The Pathways Initiative — started last year at the urging of utility regulators from five states — aims to create the largest Western power market possible that includes California while minimizing costs The 26-member launch committee includes utilities The proposal is the second step in a two-phase process of creating an independent organization to oversee the EIM and pending EDAM which are run by the California Independent System Operator the Western Energy Markets Governing Body was granted primary authority over the EIM and EDAM The second phase would create the regional organization and give it sole authority over the markets “It aims to implement the regulators’ vision of a regional energy market with a large and inclusive footprint maximizing independence while retaining and leveraging the existing market infrastructure to minimize costs,” the launch committee said in the proposal The initiative is developing its two-step plan in a way that would allow for the eventual creation of a voluntary regional transmission organization in the West “We've outlined how this organization can evolve to offer the full range of RTO services,” Brian Turner a director with Advanced Energy United and member of the launch committee “Utilities and their state regulators want to evaluate the costs and benefits for them on every part of the journey towards full RTO services an à la carte menu of what services serve best for each utility in each state.” The initiative is proposing that the regional organization would be a non-profit that operates in the public’s benefit the proposal calls for creating a “body of state regulators,” an independent consumer advocate organization and an office of public participation It also includes a stakeholder committee that could play a key role in policy development “The [stakeholder committee] will work closely with [regional organization] staff to catalog and prioritize initiatives and develop solutions,” the launch committee said in the proposal The launch committee is still working to craft a proposal for defining the sectors that would be represented on the committee the regional organization would have limited staffing with an estimated annual cost of $1.25 million to $1.5 million Annual costs could grow to $10 million to $14 million as the organization develops The Pathways Initiative is holding a public meeting on Friday to discuss the proposal 25 and the group aims to make a final decision in mid-November The initiative intends to launch the regional organization in early 2026 NV Energy is expected to ask Nevada regulators later this year for permission to join the EDAM a move that will trigger the first phase of the Pathways Initiative The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will need to approve the phase-one shift in the governance structure giving more authority to the Western Energy Markets Governing Body California lawmakers will need to pass legislation next year to enable the regional organization abuse,” Judge Tanya Chutkan said to Department of Justice attorney Marc Sacks “You seem to be abandoning that position now.” Subscribe to the Utility Dive free daily newsletter We may receive a commission on purchases made from links Babybel original is a semi-soft cheese with a delicate nutty flavor that's reminiscent of many mild cheeses but the supple creaminess with a bit of added bounce to the texture is hard to pinpoint Let's find out what kind of cheese Babybel original actually is Despite being a French brand, Babybel is inspired by Edam, a cheese from the Netherlands. Edam, similar to its fellow Dutch cousin Gouda A tasting test would prove the similarities between Edam and the mini wax-wrapped cheese wheels Given the perfectly round shape, it wouldn't be out of pocket to suspect that Babybel is a processed cheese product like American cheese but it is confirmed to be 100% real cheese made with just four ingredients It doesn't contain the emusifiers that characterize American cheese slices While Babybel original certainly falls into the Edam family sharing the same tasting notes and exterior Babybel is produced in the same traditional manner as Edam Babybel can be enjoyed by lacto-vegetarian cheese-lovers as it uses vegetarian rennet The only other ingredients are salt and lactic ferments plus Monterey Jack versions and cheddar ones “This may represent a market that is too good to pass up for a lot of other Western utilities,” Advanced Energy United’s Brian Turner said NV Energy plans to join the Extended Day-Ahead Market being developed by the California Independent System Operator the Las Vegas-based utility company’s federal energy policy director NV Energy — with about 10,645 MW of owned and contracted capacity — intends this fall to file an application with the Nevada Public Utilities Commission seeking permission to join the EDAM Rubin said during a meeting held by the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative The initiative is developing an independent governance framework for regional power markets developed by CAISO Western Resource Advocates commended NV Energy for joining the EDAM because it leverages the benefits of the existing Western Energy Imbalance Market and puts the utility company on track to comply with Nevada Senate Bill 448 which sets a goal for NV Energy to join a regional transmission organization by 2030 WRA deputy director for markets and transmission NV Energy had been exploring joining the EDAM or the Southwest Power Pool’s Markets+ day-ahead market The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has largely approved the EDAM market which is set to launch in the spring of 2026 which SPP aims to start running in early 2027 A Brattle Group study found that under several scenarios NV Energy stood to gain $62 million to $149 million a year by joining EDAM compared with a $17 million loss to a $16 million gain by participating in Markets+ The benefits of joining EDAM are largely due to opportunities for selling additional generation at higher prices and buying excess solar at lower prices The benefits are heavily influenced by NV Energy’s central location within the Western grid and by its large amount of transfer capacity NV Energy owned 6,010 MW, almost all gas-fired generation, and was building 444 MW of gas and 150 MW of solar, as of Dec. 31, according to its annual report filed in late February with the U.S It also has power purchase agreements totaling 4,035 MW The PPAs are almost all for renewable energy NV Energy accounts for 4.5% of all the load in the West Combined with utilities that have said they plan to join or are leaning towards EDAM the market would account for about 46% of Western load “It's just a very large market and encompasses a large degree of resource diversity with all the implications for managing different generation needs on a normal day-to-day basis in the winter versus the summer and under extreme weather events,” Turner said “This may represent a market that is too good to pass up for a lot of other Western utilities.” Nevada represents a transmission crossroads for the interior West “This really puts Nevada at the center of Western energy development,” he said in deciding to join or leaning towards joining the EDAM Those utilities have enough load to trigger a process that would make the Western EIM board the primary governance authority over the day-ahead and imbalance markets instead of having joint authority with CAISO’s board under a plan approved unanimously by the Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee on Friday of New Mexico and Tucson Electric Power are also weighing their market options but a critical factor will be which utilities join which market a commissioner on the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission “One of the things that will matter a lot is who is participating which resources will be available to the market and how much transmission will be available,” Aguilera said during a May 17 PRC workshop on EDAM and Markets+ “That’s something I’ll continue to look at.” Municipally owned Seattle City Light so far is the only utility among BPA's 'preference' customers to come out strongly against the agency's stated preference for joining SPP's Markets+ over CAISO's EDAM While Arizona regulators are not likely to block the state's utilities from joining Markets+ Commissioner Thompson's views represent sharp dissent from a key stakeholder The white paper by The Brattle Group offers a point-by-point comparison of CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market and SPP’s Markets+ that leans in favor of EDAM but stops short of endorsing either market The Brattle comparative study comes at a time when supporters of both EDAM and Markets+ are ramping up their efforts to influence utilities still undecided about which day-ahead market to join A new initiative to streamline and expand bilateral trading in the Western Energy Imbalance Market and Extended Day-Ahead Market has been launched marking another step toward EDAM implementation Say the name "Babybel," and it's impossible not to picture those flat little rounds of cheese coated in red wax a staple of school and office lunches alike And there's something so fun about peeling off that coating and the prize of dairy goodness within is revealed to you from a shell that ends up looking like Pac Man's disembodied head And what we know to be Babybel cheese is actually its miniature version aka a "Mini Babybel." Large-format Babybels exist in other countries under the name Babybel Maxi but those aren't available in the United States for us peel-and-eat cheese lovers Babybel's original version is meant to be similar to an Edam-style cheese Edam cheese is a semi-hard cheese from the Netherlands that has nutty tones to it The young version is closest to what Babybel's cheese tastes like A similar cheese to Edam is Gouda which also originates from the Netherlands though the Babybel you've eaten in the United States has likely been made in Kentucky and South Dakota too; Babybel first hit the market in 1952 in France but is now sold in over 50 countries today It looks like people's love of Babybel hasn't been lost in translation though and everyone across the world seemingly loves peeling that wax off as much as we do CAISO increasingly will be focused on preparations for implementing its Extended Day-Ahead Market as its approaches the market's 2026 launch NV Energy intends to join CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market notching a major win for the ISO in its competition with SPP’s Markets+ day-ahead offering in the West Because Step 2 in the process would grant the new regional organization sole authority over CAISO markets Pathways supporters will work with lawmakers to pass a bill in the next session