Generators ask FERC to mandate capacity market for CAISO

Utility Dive: The emerging battle over a potential capacity market in California is the latest in a string of debates over how to reconcile electricity market operations with state energy policies.

In California, generators say the state's ambitious renewable energy policies are running them out of business. As wind and solar increase on the grid, generators say they drive down the market prices for other power plants, "plunging resource owners into bankruptcy or forcing resources to exit the market altogether," as La Paloma's operator wrote in its protest.

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