Annual policy initiatives roadmap process - 2025

Started: Jan 01, 2025

Leads
Amelia Blanke
Alyssa Krag-Arnold

The annual catalog and roadmap process captures the policy initiatives the ISO will undertake in the following three years. Stakeholders may propose potential discretionary policy initiatives in January and February. Following a stakeholder-led prioritization process in the spring, the ISO will publish the catalog, which is a focused list of potential discretionary policy initiatives. The catalog will help inform the development of the roadmap, published at the end of the year.

 

Status

Development Decision Implementation Completed/Closed
Dec 12, 2025 Final 2026-2028 Policy Roadmap, Appendix A - Policy Roadmap, Appendix B - Dispositions posted
Completed

Activities


The California ISO has published the 2025 Final Policy Initiatives Roadmap and dispositions of submitted initiatives to its website. The Roadmap document describes the updated process that the ISO undertook over the course of 2025 to solicit stakeholder submissions, facilitate discourse among stakeholders about their submissions, consider stakeholder prioritization, and incorporate that feedback into the ISO’s final policy initiative work plan for 2026-2028. The document also includes dispositions, or outcomes of the ISO’s prioritization process, for stakeholder submissions to the Catalog. These dispositions describe why or why not the ISO was able to incorporate each submission into the Roadmap or other ISO planning process.

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/2026-2028 2024-Final-Policy-Initiatives-Roadmap-and-Dispositions.pdf

2026-2028 Final Policy Initiatives Roadmap and Dispositions

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/Appendix-A-2025-Final-Policy-Roadmap.xlsx

Appendix A - 2025 Final Policy Roadmap

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/Appendix-B-2025-Final-Dispositions.xlsx

Appendix B - 2025 Final Dispositions

Web meeting


https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/Draft-2026-2028-Policy-Initiatives-Roadmap.xlsx

Draft 2026-2028 Policy Initiatives Roadmap
This spreadsheet is the culmination of the 2025 Policy Catalog and Roadmap process and describes the planned policy development timeline for existing and new market policy initiatives for 2026-2028. Updated 11/04/2025

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/Presentation-Policy-Initiatives-Catalog-Roadmap-Nov-06-2025.pdf

Presentation - Policy Initiatives Catalog Roadmap - Nov 06, 2025

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https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/2025-Policy-Catalog.pdf

2025 Annual Policy Roadmap Catalog

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/Appendix-A-2025-Catalog-Items.xlsx

Appendix A - 2025 Catalog Items

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/Appendix-B-Non-Catalog-Items.xlsx

Appendix B - Non-Catalog Items

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/Appendix-C-Prioritization-Survey-Results.xlsx

Appendix C - Prioritization Survey Results


https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/2025 Revised Policy Initiatives Roadmap - May 22 2025.pdf

2025 Revised Policy Initiatives Roadmap - May 22, 2025

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/Attachment A - Revised 2025 Policy Roadmap - May 22 2025.xlsx

Attachment A - Revised 2025 Policy Roadmap - May 22, 2025

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/Attachment B - Stakeholder Survey Results - May 22 2025.xlsx

Attachment B - Stakeholder Survey Results - May 22, 2025

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/2025 Regional Issues Forum Roundtable Report - May 22 2025.pdf

2025 Regional Issues Forum Roundtable Report - May 22, 2025

Web meeting


https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/2025-Catalog-Submission-Summary.pdf

2025 Policy Catalog Submissions Summary

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/Survey Questions - Policy Initiatives Stakeholder Prioritization Survey - Apr 3, 2025.pdf

Survey Questions - Policy Initiatives Stakeholder Prioritization Survey - Apr 03, 2025.pdf

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/Presentation-Annual-Policy-Prioritization-workshop-April-3-2025.pdf

Presentation - Annual Policy Prioritization Workshop - Apr 03, 2025

https://youtu.be/iSDFFY__9-o

Web meeting


Kick-off meeting - The ISO will update stakeholders on the timeline for proposing new policy initiatives and preview the catalog submission template that will be made available following the call. The ISO will also preview how stakeholders can participate in the policy initiative prioritization process to help shape the initiatives included in the 2025 Catalog and Roadmap.

https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/Presentation-Annual-Policy-Initiatives-Roadmap-Process-Jan-30-2025.pdf

Presentation - Annual Policy Initiatives Roadmap Process - Jan 30, 2025

https://youtu.be/ZsLrmtLtlXk
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https://stakeholdercenter.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/Policy-Initiative-Catalog-and-Roadmap-Process.pdf

Policy Initiative Catalog and Roadmap Process
This is a general reference document that’s not specific to the year 2025, since this is a process that recurs annually.