Brett Wangen, Vice President of Power System Services for Grid Subject Matter Experts, spoke on behalf of WIRAB at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Technical Workshop on Grid Enhancing Technologies where he discussed an underutilized grid enhancing technology in system…

Commissioner Jordan White, Utah Public Service Commission and WIRAB Vice Chair, spoke at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s annual Reliability Technical Conference where he shared WIRAB’s views on the importance of Reliability Coordinators in the West maintaining performance metrics to…

Brett Wangen, Vice President of Power System Services for Grid Subject Matter Experts, spoke on behalf of WIRAB at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Technical Conference on Managing Transmission Line Ratings where he shared his experience on the operational challenges…

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,…

WIRAB submitted advice to WECC on the scope of WECC’s upcoming 2020 Organizational Review. WIRAB’s advice encourages the WECC Board to conduct a focused and manageable review of WECC’s structure, processes, and responsibilities that can help improve WECC’s efficiency, accountability, leadership,…

WIRAB submitted advice to the WECC Board of Directors on the implementation of the Reliability Assessment Committee (RAC). WIRAB supports the creation of the RAC, but WIRAB identifies challenges with a perceived lack of authority to adjust data submitted to WECC…

WIRAB submitted advice to the WECC Board of Directors on WECC’s Reliability Coordinator (RC) Data Request. Section 1600 of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Rules of Procedure allows for NERC and the Regional Entities to request data or information…