| CAISO
California’s restructured electricity industry is complex, with traditional utilities, private generating companies and state agencies each playing a variety of roles and carrying different responsibilities. The California ISO, a not-for-profit public benefit corporation, is one link in this chain, but an important link. The ISO is the impartial operator of the state’s wholesale power grid—maintaining reliability
and directing the electron traffic on the transmission superhighway that connects energy suppliers with the utilities that serve 30 million Californians. For consumers, the California ISO makes sure the electrical needs of all customers are met around the clock and that reasonable wholesale costs are fostered. For energy companies, the California ISO ensures equal access to 25,526 circuit miles of transmission lines and conducts open and fair markets that are used as a last resort to balance the system.
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