The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) and its sister organization, the Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB), are seeking applicants for the “Electric System Reliability Analyst” position. Click here for details.
The Western Interstate Energy Board seeks technical assistance from an experienced contractor to carry out a two-month outreach project that solicits and summarizes input from stakeholders across the Western Interconnection for consideration in California’s Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative 2.0 (RETI 2.0). Deadline for responding to the RFP is July 20, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. MDT.…
The Western Interstate Energy Board of Directors met in downtown Denver on June 21-22 at the Homewood Suites hotel. Agenda topics included updates on committee activities, WIEB initiatives, process for committee policy resolutions and written comments, election of WIEB officers, approval of WIEB budget and state-provincial roundable discussion. Agenda | Minutes
The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) draft 2017 Business Plan and Budget is available for comment. Interested parties should submit comments by 5:00 pm on June 16, 2016. Please direct inquiries and e-mail comments to Alison Wilson (at awilson@westernenergyboard.org). Please e-mail comments using the subject line: “Response to WIRAB Draft 2017 Business Plan and…
The WIEB HLRW Committee conducted a special meeting in downtown Denver on July 6-7, at WIEB offices. The purpose was to review and update the Committee’s policies regarding SNF/HLW transport, taking into account recent program initiatives and decisions. Topics included the role of SNF/HLW transport in an integrated national waste disposition program, transport cask confidence…
The Western Interstate Energy Board announces the availability of a new policy paper. The paper, entitled Distributed Energy Resource Interconnection Timelines and Advanced Inverter Deployment, is timely given the ever-increasing cumulative nameplate capacity of distributed energy resources in the Western Interconnection. The paper covers interconnection timelines, national standards for interconnection, Smart Inverter Working Group input…