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WIRAB Draft 2017 Business Plan and Budget Posted for Public Comment

May 19, 2016

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…

EIM-BOSR Meeting | May 22, 2016

May 16, 2016

The Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Body of State Regulators (BOSR) met on May 22, 2016. Agenda

Spring 2016 HLRWC Meeting

May 5, 2016

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…

WIEB Distributed Energy Resource policy paper

May 3, 2016

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…

WIRAB Staff Comments on Peak Reliability 2016 Strategic Plan

May 2, 2016

The Staff of the Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (“WIRAB Staff”) submitted comments on Peak Reliability’s March 30, 2016 draft 2016-2020 Strategic Plan. WIRAB Staff emphasized that the goal of Peak should be to serve the public interest by continually seeking to enhance grid reliability in the Western Interconnection and WIRAB Staff made comments and…

Spring 2016 Joint WIRAB-CREPC Meeting

April 28, 2016

The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) and the Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation (CREPC) met on April 26-27 at the Marriott City Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Agenda topics included: Regional ISO Design and Governance Issues; Distributed Energy Resource Policies; Essential Reliability Services; and Interconnection-wide Planning and Analysis. A detailed agenda is…

Advice of WIRAB on the FERC NOI on Primary Frequency Response (Docket No. RM16-6-000)

April 25, 2016

The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (“WIRAB”) submitted advice to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) on its 2016 Notice of Inquiry (“NOI”) on Essential Reliability Services and the Evolving Bulk-Power System – Primary Frequency Response (Docket No.: RM16-6). Primary frequency response (“PFR”) is crucial in the reliable operation of the electric grid. With the…

Final Report on Primary Frequency Response: Maintaining System Reliability | April 2016

April 20, 2016

GE Energy Consulting completed a report for the Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (“WIRAB”) on primary frequency response (“PFR”). PFR is crucial in the reliable operation of the electric grid. With the rapidly changing resource mix in the West and the rest of the country, there is a concern that there may not be enough…

EIM-BOSR Teleconference | April 18, 2016

April 11, 2016

The Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Body of State Regulators (BOSR) met on April 18, 2016. Agenda

EIM-BOSR Teleconference | April 13, 2016

April 6, 2016

The Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Body of State Regulators (BOSR) met on April 13, 2016. Agenda