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WIRAB/SPSC submitted comments to the Western Planning Region Group (California ISO, ColumbiaGrid, Northern Tier, and WestConnect) on its proposed Interregional Transmission Planning Coordination (ITPC) Procedures. | July 2015

July 10, 2015

WIRAB/SPSC submitted comments to the Western Planning Region Group (California ISO, ColumbiaGrid, Northern Tier, and WestConnect) on its proposed Interregional Transmission Planning Coordination (ITPC) Procedures. The comments go beyond recommending improvements to the proposed ITPC Procedures and make specific recommendations regarding the future role of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) in developing interconnection-wide transmission…

Grid Authority and Performance

July 6, 2015

July 6, 2015 | Grid Authority and Performance | [presentation] | This webinar covered the history and evolution of NERC’s authority and explained how reliability standards are developed and enforced. It also described the roles and responsibilities of Balancing Authorities, Transmission Operators, Generation Operators and Reliability Coordinators. The discussion included the history of NERC’s Control…

Special WIEB Board Meeting | Teleconference | August 28, 2015

June 19, 2015

Minutes

2015 WIEB Annual Board Meeting | Boise, Idaho | June 17-18, 2015

June 18, 2015

Agenda | Minutes

Final report released by E3

May 26, 2015

April 2015 – E3 – Western Interconnection Flexibility Assessment: Interim Project Report Energy and Environmental Economics (E3) completed the Interim Project Report of the Western Interconnection Flexibility Assessment. This is a collaborative project among WECC, WIEB, NREL and E3 to investigate the operational challenges of increasing levels of variable generation in the Western Interconnection and…

Final report released by GridSME and Quanta

May 22, 2015

April 2015 – Development of a New Methodology for Determining the Transfer Capability of the Western Grid | GridSME (Introduction) | Quanta (Technical Report)

Final report released by MJ Bradley

May 19, 2015

April 2015 – MJ Bradley – Methane Emissions in the Natural Gas Life Cycle This report concerns the issue of methane leakage during the life cycle of natural gas-fired power generation. Methane leakage is an important issue because methane is a greenhouse gas (GHG) of much greater global warming potential than carbon dioxide (as much…

Final report released by EQL

May 18, 2015

April 2015 – EQL – Emerging Changes in Electric Distribution Systems in Western States Provinces Distributed Energy Resources (DER) are, and will continue to be, a growing component of WECC resources. Historically, new facility investment in distribution systems has been for load growth; more recently, investment in distribution systems has expanded to include DER (on…

Final report released by Energy Strategies

May 18, 2015

May 2015 – Energy Strategies – EPA Clean Power Plan final report: Western State Resource Scenarios Energy Strategies produced a report that documents the assumptions in four planning scenarios developed in consultation with an SPSC modeling work group. These scenarios illustrate future state-level resource mixes that could result from strategies that state may employ to…

WIRAB Final Comments on Peak 2016 Budget | May 2015

May 15, 2015

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