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State Representatives Submit Written Comments to the Southwest Power Pool on Markets+ Governance Design

Posted: 31 May at 11:25 am

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.…

State Representatives Submit Written Comments to the Northwest Power Pool on Straw Proposal for States’ Role on the Committee of State Representatives

Posted: December 20, 2021

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…

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

Posted: October 15, 2021

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: July 12, 2021

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: February 15, 2021

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: June 23, 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: June 15, 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: January 30, 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: February 12, 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: November 7, 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…

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