WIEB 2022 Semi-Annual Update
A brief report summarizing WIEB activities over the past few months. The report can be read here.
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CREPC Submits Comments to FERC in Support of the WRAP
Representatives of the Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation (CREPC) worked to develop and submit supportive comments on the Western Power Pool’s (WPP) Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP) tariff filing at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Many CREPC representatives…
Read MoreWestern State Representatives Submit Comments to FERC in Docket No. RM21-17 on Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation
August 17, 2022 In coordination with the Western Representatives to the Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission and the Western Interstate Energy Board, Western State Representatives from ten western states submitted comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that…
Read MoreElectric Demand Response: Policies in the West
September, 2022 The Western Interstate Energy Board approved a report that explored electricity demand response policies throughout the Western states. State policymakers from around the West are trying to learn from each other on how to increase the effectiveness of…
Read MoreState Representatives Submit Written Comments to the Southwest Power Pool on Markets+ Governance Design
State Representatives Submit Written Comments to the Southwest Power Pool on Markets+ Governance Design State representatives from 9 western states submitted comments to the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) regarding various governance design elements under discussion in the SPP’s Markets+ initiative.…
Read MoreState Representatives Submit Written Comments to the Northwest Power Pool on Straw Proposal for States’ Role on the Committee of State Representatives
State Representatives Submit Written Comments to the Northwest Power Pool on Straw Proposal for States’ Role on the Committee of State Representatives State representatives from 9 western states submitted comments to the Northwest Power Pool (NWPP) regarding the NWPP’s Western…
Read MoreState Representatives Submit Written Comments to the Northwest Power Pool on Governance of Western Resource Adequacy Program
State Representatives Submit Written Comments to the Northwest Power Pool on Governance of Western Resource Adequacy Program State representatives from 10 western states submitted comments to the Northwest Power Pool (NWPP) on governance of the proposed Western Resource Adequacy Program. …
Read MorePV on a Pole™ Potential in the West
The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) is pleased to release a report titled, “PV on a Pole™ Potential in the West.” As part of the Western Interstate Energy Board’s Reserve Expenditure Plan, the Board approved a proposal from the State…
Read MoreImplications of a Regional Resource Adequacy Program on Utility Integrated Resource Planning
The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) collaborated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Texas-Austin to investigate the implications of a regional resource adequacy (RA) program on utility integrated resource planning (IRP). The report, “Implications of a…
Read MoreSimulating Distributed Energy Resource Responses to Transmission System-Level Faults Considering IEEE 1547 Performance Categories on Three Major WECC Transmission Paths | June 2020
Simulating Distributed Energy Resource Responses to Transmission System-Level Faults Considering IEEE 1547 Performance Categories on Three Major WECC Transmission Paths | June 2020 The quantity of distributed energy resources (DERs) has increased substantially during the past two decades, and…
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