2019 EIM-BOSR 2nd Quarter Meeting | April 17, 2019
The Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Body of State Regulators (BOSR) met at the Marriott Salt Lake Downtown City Creek in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 17, 2019. Agenda
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2019 WIEB Annual Board Meeting | Salt Lake City, Utah | April 17, 2019
The annual meeting of the Western Interstate Energy Board was held at the Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek, Salt Lake City, Utah on April 17, 2019. Consent Agenda | Meeting Agenda | Minutes
Read MoreWIRAB Monthly Meeting | March 7, 2019
Thursday, March 7, 2019 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) is conducting its monthly teleconference to discuss current initiatives and activities of WIRAB. The purpose of the monthly meetings is for WIRAB Staff to provide WIRAB Representatives with progress reports on key initiatives and activities, to educate WIRAB…
Read MoreReport on Emerging Issues and Policy Tools Related to the Interconnection of Distributed Solar PV
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently published a joint NREL/WIEB report, “New Approaches to Distributed PV Interconnection: Implementation Considerations for Addressing Emerging Issues,” as part of the interconnection arm of WIEB’s Enhanced Distributed Solar PV Deployment Project. This report examines new policies and practices for interconnecting residential and commercial PV systems that are being…
Read MoreSpring 2019 Joint CREPC-WIRAB Meeting
The Spring 2019 Joint CREPC-WIRAB Meetings were held at the Marriott Downtown at City Creek in Salt Lake City, Utah. Agenda topics included: • Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Power Plants • Electric Vehicles and Emergency Preparedness • Wholesale Electricity Market Expansion in the West • Resource Adequacy and Utility Reliance on Market Purchases • Solar…
Read MoreNew Approaches to Distributed PV Interconnection: Implementation Considerations for Addressing Emerging Issues | February 2019
In recent years, the rapid adoption of customer-sited solar photovoltaic (PV) and other distributed energy resources (DERs) has led to a variety of innovations and new approaches in assessing costs, grid conditions, and requirements for interconnecting DERs to the grid. Large volumes of interconnection requests in some states and utility service areas have led to…
Read MoreWIRAB Monthly Meeting | February 7, 2019
Thursday, February 7, 2019 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) is conducting its monthly teleconference to discuss current initiatives and activities of WIRAB. The purpose of the monthly meetings is for WIRAB Staff to provide WIRAB Representatives with progress reports on key initiatives and activities, to educate WIRAB…
Read MoreEIM-BOSR Comments on EIM Governing Body’s EIM Governance Review: CAISO’s Issue Paper and Straw Proposal | January 18, 2019
The Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Body of State Regulators (BOSR) submitted comments to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) on the EIM Governance Issue Paper and Straw Proposal. The BOSR supports the CAISO straw proposal to incrementally add a “motivation test” to the process for determining which market changes the EIM Governing Body is…
Read MoreWIEB Distributed Solar PV Interconnection Project Outreach
WIEB staff have been traveling to states across the West as part of outreach to discuss findings from a research project looking at barriers to solar PV deployment related to the interconnection process. This research has culminated in two reports, “Review of Interconnection Practices and Costs in the Western States” and “New Approaches to Distributed…
Read MoreWIRAB Monthly Meeting | January 3, 2019
Thursday, January 3, 2019 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) is conducting its monthly teleconference to discuss current initiatives and activities of WIRAB. The purpose of the monthly meetings is for WIRAB Staff to provide WIRAB Representatives with progress reports on key initiatives and activities, to educate WIRAB…
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