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State Representatives Submit Written Comments to the Northwest Power Pool on Governance of Western Resource Adequacy Program

Posted: 15 Oct at 11:47 am

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. …

PV on a Pole™ Potential in the West

Posted: 12 Jul at 12:50 pm

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…

Implications of a Regional Resource Adequacy Program on Utility Integrated Resource Planning

Posted: 15 Feb at 1:00 pm

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…

Simulating Distributed Energy Resource Responses to Transmission System-Level Faults Considering IEEE 1547 Performance Categories on Three Major WECC Transmission Paths | June 2020

Posted: 23 Jun 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…

High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee 2020 Policy Paper and amendments to already-approved policy papers | April 2020

Posted: 15 Jun 2020

The HLRWC made another installment to their policy paper repertoire with the approval of Position Paper 2020-1: Transportation Responsibilities Non-Delegable to Private Entities. This paper solidifies the long-time stance of the HLRWC and the Western states that there are certain…

Issue Brief – Wind Decommissioning Policies in the West

Posted: 30 Jan 2020

The WIEB Board approved a proposal from the state of New Mexico, requesting that WIEB review existing wind turbine decommissioning procedures, practices, and requirements within western states and provinces, identify best practices, from a regional perspective, and provide recommendations to…

New Approaches to Distributed PV Interconnection: Implementation Considerations for Addressing Emerging Issues | February 2019

Posted: 12 Feb 2019

In recent years, the rapid adoption of customer-sited solar photovoltaic (PV) and other distributed energy resources (DERs) has led to a variety of innovations and new approaches in assessing costs, grid conditions, and requirements for interconnecting DERs to the grid.…

High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee 2018 Policy Papers | November 2018

Posted: 7 Nov 2018

In 2018, the HLRWC completed and approved four more policy papers, continuing their key initiative of the past few years. In these papers, the HLRWC reached consensus on a broad range of often contentious ideas, a testament to their experience…

Review of Interconnection Practices and Costs in the Western States | April 2018

Posted: 15 May 2018

In recent years, growth in the number of requests to interconnect solar photovoltaic (PV) systems to the utility grid has raised new issues and challenges for PV installers, utilities, and ultimately the PV customers who absorb the costs of interconnection…

High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee Policy Papers: Introduction | December 2017

Posted: 27 Dec 2017

Since the beginning of nuclear power generation in the United States, there has been the assumption and expectation that at some point in time, spent nuclear fuel (SNF) would be transported from the reactors to a final disposal site. Throughout…

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