Current law designates the Independent System Operator (ISO) as a nonprofit responsible for managing California’s transmission grid and energy markets to ensure efficiency and reliability. The Public Utilities Commission (PUC), in consultation with the ISO, sets resource adequacy requirements for electricity providers (such as utility companies and community choice aggregators) to maintain grid reliability. The ISO must ensure grid efficiency and reliability and can modify its tariff (with federal approval) to meet these goals.

This bill proposes a nonsubstantive (minor, non-policy) change to the existing requirement that the ISO ensures efficient and reliable grid operation.