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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…

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

Posted: May 15, 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: December 27, 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…

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

Posted: May 31, 2017

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

Posted: May 31, 2017

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Linking to Obtain the Potential Benefits of Broader Carbon Markets: Requirement of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) | December 2016

Posted: March 9, 2017

Given that heterogeneous carbon emission reduction policies and programs are developing in the West on a state-by-state basis, Western states may be interested in how to link with other programs to gain the benefits of larger carbon markets. This brief…

Linking to Obtain the Potential Benefits of Broader Carbon Markets: Requirements of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) | December 2016

Posted: March 9, 2017

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