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WIEB Webinar: Western Flexibility Assessment

Posted: December 10, 2019

The Western Interstate Energy Board is pleased to announce the release of the Western Flexibility Assessment. This study investigates the flexibility of a future western grid in which renewable resources are deployed at levels consistent with enacted and foreseeable public…

WIEB – EIM-BOSR Memorandum of Understanding on Technical Support

Posted: November 1, 2019

On August 12, 2019, the Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) and the EIM-Body of State Regulators (EIM-BOSR) approved a memorandum of understanding outlining a conditional agreement through which WIEB may provide the technical expertise, staff resources, and office space necessary…

WIEB Webinar: Priority Considerations for the Transport of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel in the U.S.

Posted: September 3, 2019

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) – Stanford University 2019 Summer Interns hosted a webinar presenting the culmination of their work on analysis of shipping priorities for transporting commercial spent nuclear fuel in the United States. The interns analyzed spent…

2020 WIRAB Business Plan and Budget

Posted: July 11, 2019

WIRAB staff has submitted a final draft of the WIRAB 2020 Business Plan and Budget (BP&B) to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The BP&B outlines WIRAB’s budget and funding requirement, and identifies the organization’s strategic priorities and goals,…

WIEB Webinar: System Flexibility and Data-Driven Thermal Operating Limits

Posted: May 20, 2019

With increasing penetrations of variable energy resources on both the transmission and distribution systems, utilities need to adapt how they manage their resources to integrate the variable resources and load while maintaining reliability. One tool available to system operators to…

WIEB Webinar: HLRWC 2017 Policy Papers

Posted: May 8, 2019

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee (HLRWC) has gathered and distilled the experience it has developed over decades of engagement with various nuclear waste transportation programs into nine policy papers. The HLRWC collectively developed and approved…

WIEB Webinar: New Approaches to Defining HLRW

Posted: March 29, 2019

The U.S. statutory definitions of “high-level radioactive waste” (HLW) have long been criticized for being largely based on the source of the nuclear waste, rather than being based on the waste’s characteristics, desired disposal pathways, or risk management ideas. In…

Report on Emerging Issues and Policy Tools Related to the Interconnection of Distributed Solar PV

Posted: February 22, 2019

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…

WIEB Distributed Solar PV Interconnection Project Outreach

Posted: January 3, 2019

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,…

RFP Released: Study on Operational Flexibility of the Power System

Posted: October 8, 2018

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) is pleased to announce the release of the attached Request for Proposal (RFP) to hire a contractor for a new study. This study will model and explore the operational flexibility of the electric power…

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