WIRAB Advice to the NERC Board of Trustees on Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Stakeholder Engagement | January 2018

WIRAB submitted comments to the NERC Board of Trustees on Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Stakeholder Engagement that express WIRAB’s concern is that any effort to streamline the use of industry subject matter expertise could result in a shift of industry engagement towards NERC and away from WECC, and that the NERC Board should remain cognizant…
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WIRAB Advice to the NERC Board of Trustees on the 2017 ERO Reliability Risk Priorities Report | January 2018

WIRAB submitted advice to the NERC Board of Trustees on the 2017 ERO Reliability Risk Priorities Report. The comments commend the Reliability Issues Steering Committee for developing an important and comprehensive report with many specific recommendations. The comments also recommend that the Board of Trustees focus on a small set of specific recommendations that the ERO Enterprise…
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WIRAB Monthly Meeting | February 1, 2018

Thursday, February 1, 2018 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) conducted 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 Representatives…
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Spring 2018 Joint CREPC-WIRAB Meeting

Wednesday, April 18, 1:00 p.m. PDT – Friday, April 20, at Noon PDT The Spring 2018 Joint CREPC-WIRAB meetings was held at the Coast Coal Harbour Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia. Some of the topics on the agenda included: The future of hydroelectric generation in the West Expansion of electricity markets in the West Extreme…
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WIRAB Monthly Meeting | January 4, 2018

Thursday, January 4, 2018 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) conducted 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 Representatives…
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High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee Policy Papers

The Western Interstate Energy Board has approved and adopted five new policy papers developed by the High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee. The papers received undivided support from the Board. These papers now represent the official policy of WIEB on several key nuclear waste transportation topics: the application of the WIPP transport model to SNF/HLW transport; physical…
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EIM-BOSR Comments on CAISO Initiative: Revisions to EIM Market Governance Documents | December 18, 2017

The Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Body of State Regulators (BOSR) submitted comments to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) regarding proposed revisions to EIM market governance documents. These comments are in response to the November 17, 2017, CAISO Issue Paper that proposes changes to the Selection Policy for the EIM Governing Body (“Selection Policy”)…
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EIM-BOSR Comments on CAISO Initiative: Regional Integration and EIM Greenhouse Gas Compliance | December 18, 2017

The Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Body of State Regulators (BOSR) submitted comments to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) regarding the Regional Integration and EIM Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Compliance Initiative. The purpose of this Initiative is to address concerns that the EIM GHG market design is not capturing the impact on the atmosphere that…
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