WIRAB submitted advice to the WECC Board of Directors on the proposed 2020 Business Plan and Budget (BP&B) for WECC. WIRAB reviewed the proposed 2020 BP&B and found the budget and assessment to be reasonable and in the public interest. Advice  

The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) draft 2021 Business Plan and Budget (BP&B) is available for comment. Interested parties should submit comments by 5:00 PM MT on May 29, 2020. The WIRAB Staff will present the BP&B on the…

The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) hosted a series of five tutorials on how the changing resource mix affects grid reliability. Power system experts Debbie Lew and Nick Miller broke down grid reliability needs into long-term, medium-term, and short-term…

WIRAB Advice supporting proposed changes by WECC on its Information Reporting and Sharing Policies.  WECC is proposing to revise and simplify the WECC Information Reporting Policy by providing more discretion to the WECC staff, removing unnecessary provisions, and updating the…

Brett Wangen, Vice President of Power System Services for Grid Subject Matter Experts, spoke on behalf of WIRAB at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Technical Workshop on Grid Enhancing Technologies where he discussed an underutilized grid enhancing technology in system…

Commissioner Jordan White, Utah Public Service Commission and WIRAB Vice Chair, spoke at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s annual Reliability Technical Conference where he shared WIRAB’s views on the importance of Reliability Coordinators in the West maintaining performance metrics to…

Brett Wangen, Vice President of Power System Services for Grid Subject Matter Experts, spoke on behalf of WIRAB at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Technical Conference on Managing Transmission Line Ratings where he shared his experience on the operational challenges…

WIRAB staff has submitted a final draft of the WIRAB 2020 Business Plan and Budget (BP&B) to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).  The BP&B outlines WIRAB’s budget and funding requirement, and identifies the organization’s strategic priorities and goals,…

WIRAB submitted advice to WECC on the scope of WECC’s upcoming 2020 Organizational Review. WIRAB’s advice encourages the WECC Board to conduct a focused and manageable review of WECC’s structure, processes, and responsibilities that can help improve WECC’s efficiency, accountability, leadership,…

WIRAB submitted advice to the WECC Board of Directors on the implementation of the Reliability Assessment Committee (RAC). WIRAB supports the creation of the RAC, but WIRAB identifies challenges with a perceived lack of authority to adjust data submitted to WECC…