Elliot Mainzer took over as president and CEO of the California Independent System Operator in September as has been focused on recovering from the August rotating outages and preparing for next summer, while also looking ahead to modernize the resource adequacy system for the wave of storage and renewables coming onto the grid.

Mainzer sat down with Kassia Micek, Platts North American power news editor, to discuss the work the ISO is doing and what the future holds.