Power Markets in U.S. Advance Key Steps to Improving Reliability

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The U.S. West and the Southeast have hit key milestones in electricity trading, advancing efforts for utilities to better integrate renewables and improve reliability as the regions undergomassive energy transitions.The California Independent System Operator and utilities in the West on Wednesday kicked off a 14-month process to design a day-ahead market, the biggest effort to coordinate theirpower trading after more than 15 years of debate. Separately, a proposal by companies including Duke Energy Corp., Southern Co. and Dominion Energy Inc. to trade real-time power inthe Southeast cleared a federal regulatory hurdle.