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State Energy Planning Roadmap for Policy Makers: Options for Addressing Emerging Energy Issues in the West | December 2016

Posted: March 9, 2017

The State Energy Planning Roadmap for Policy Makers addresses key emerging issues facing the Western electric power system as identified by Western stakeholders: a clean energy future and managing carbon risks; maintaining reliability with the integration of distributed energy resources;…

Distributed Energy Resource Interconnection Timelines and Advanced Inverter Deployment: Their Improvement in the Western Interconnection | April 2016

Posted: March 9, 2017

Distributed energy resources (DERs) include generation and other energy sources that are not centrally-located such as rooftop solar, combined heat and power, demand response and energy storage. In order for the energy of DERs to be grid-available, they must be…

Distributed Energy Resources: Technological and Policy Considerations of Hosting Capacity and Locational Value | October 2016

Posted: March 9, 2017

This paper examines the influence of DER location within a distribution system on benefits, such as avoided infrastructure costs, primarily using solar PV generation as an example. This paper draws upon an earlier paper, DER Interconnection Timelines and Advanced Inverter…

Coal Plant Retirement & Reliability – Frequency Response: Maintaining Reliability with a Changing Resource Mix | October 2016

Posted: March 9, 2017

Frequency response is a measure of an Interconnection’s ability to arrest frequency changes and stabilize frequency immediately following the sudden loss of generation or load. It is extremely important in the reliable operation of the grid. With the transformation of…

Integration of Variable Energy Resources (VER): VER Integration and System Flexibility | February 2017

Posted: March 9, 2017

Renewable energy is becoming an increasing and significant source of electric generation. The largest share of renewable energy growth comes from wind and solar technologies, both of which are known as variable energy resources (VERs) that have variable dispatch patterns…

Linking to Obtain the Potential Benefits of Broader Carbon Markets: Considerations for Western States | December 2016

Posted: March 9, 2017

Carbon pricing is a strategy being utilized by some Western states to achieve clean energy policy goals. This has been done primarily through cap and trade programs or applying a tax directly on emissions. When employing this strategy, there are…

Barriers to Electric Energy Storage | February 2017

Posted: March 1, 2017

The goal of this project was to identify barriers to electric energy storage development so that the industry and policymakers can implement solutions to address the barriers that may lead to further development of electric energy storage in the Western…

WIRAB Monthly Meeting | March 2017

Posted: February 28, 2017

Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) staff is conducting its monthly teleconference with WIRAB Members to discuss WIRAB’s current initiatives and activities. The purpose of the monthly meetings is to provide WIRAB Members with progress reports on key initiatives and…

WIRAB Webinar – Role of the Reliability Coordinator and Balancing Authorities in the Western Interconnection

Posted: February 6, 2017

Friday, February 17, 2017 The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) hosted a webinar with Peak Reliability and the California ISO to inform members of the role of the two organizations in maintaining bulk power system reliability. On November 9,…

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

Posted: January 25, 2017

The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) submitted advice to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on its 2016 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on Essential Reliability Services and the Evolving Bulk-Power System – Primary Frequency Response (Docket No.: RM16-6).…

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