In a unanimous vote, the commission expanded its price mitigation plan for California spot market sales during power emergencies to now apply 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The curbs on prices in the spot electric markets were also broadened to cover the entire 11-state Western region, stretching from Washington down to New Mexico.
FERC had been under pressure to do something about electricity prices in the West which had skyrocketed to 10 times the level of 1999.