With the help of the western states, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and funding provided by the U.S. Department of Energy-Solar Energy Technologies Office, WIEB has completed its Enhanced Solar PV Deployment Project. Through this…

The Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Body of State Regulators (BOSR) will meet via webinar on Monday, April 19, 2021, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time. The meeting will be closed to the public as the BOSR will be discussing the…

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) invites you to register for Green Hydrogen Visions for the West, a virtual conference to specifically accelerate progress for green hydrogen market and infrastructure development in the Western United States. This event is hosted…

Fridays, September 11 – October 16, 2020 The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissions (NARUC) Subcommittee on Clean Coal and Carbon Management will conduct a six-part virtual workshop series that will take place…

With funding provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory conducted research on removing interconnection, reliability, and utility rate design barriers to distributed solar…

On June 19, 2020, WIRAB members approved a 2021 WIRAB Business Plan & Budget (BP&B).  The 2021 WIRAB budget is $1,205,500; $49,700 (4%) lower than WIRAB’s 2020 budget.  WIRAB’s 2021 funding assessment is $986,300; the same amount authorized by FERC…

The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) draft 2021 Business Plan and Budget (BP&B) is available for comment. Interested parties should submit comments by 5:00 PM MT on May 29, 2020. The WIRAB Staff will present the BP&B on the…

The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) hosted a series of five tutorials on how the changing resource mix affects grid reliability. Power system experts Debbie Lew and Nick Miller broke down grid reliability needs into long-term, medium-term, and short-term…

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) is pleased to announce the release of its Issue Brief on Wind Decommissioning Policies in the West. The Issue Brief on Wind Decommissioning Policies in the West is the result of a request by…