The Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), with the help of WIRAB, the WECC Member Advisory Committee, and other WECC Stakeholders, developed a set of Near-Term Priorities for 2019-2021. WIRAB supports the final Near-Term Priorities and looks forward to working with…

WIRAB Staff submitted comments on the Western Electricity Coordinating Council’s (WECC’s) proposal to amend its Information Sharing Policy for production cost model (PCM) data to be categorized as Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (CEII). 05-25-18-WIRABstaffComments-PCM Data confidential_05-25-18  

The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) draft 2019 Business Plan and Budget is available for comment. Interested parties should submit comments by 5:00 pm on May 23, 2018. Please direct inquiries and e-mail comments to Holly Taylor (htaylor@westernenergyboard.org), using…

WIRAB submitted advice to the WECC Board of Directors on setting strategic priorities through WECC’s Strategic Planning Process. In the advice, WIRAB recommended that the WECC Board adopt (1) the Changing Resource Mix, (2) the Increasing Complexity in Protection and Control Systems,…

The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) commissioned a whitepaper from GridSME on potential seams issues that could occur as the transition to multiple Reliability Coordinators (RCs) occurs in the Western Interconnection. The purpose of this whitepaper is to highlight…

The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (“WIRAB”) submitted its response to the 2018 Peak Board Evaluation Questionnaire. Similar to previous year WIRAB responses to Peak Board evaluation questionnaires, WIRAB has submitted a single, unified response based on open deliberations among…

January 24, 2018 WIRAB submitted advice to the NERC Board of Trustees on the 2017 ERO Reliability Risk Priorities Report. The comments commend the Reliability Issues Steering Committee for developing an important and comprehensive report with many specific recommendations. The comments also recommend that…

WIRAB submitted comments to the NERC Board of Trustees on Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Stakeholder Engagement that express WIRAB’s concern is that any effort to streamline the use of industry subject matter expertise could result in a shift of industry…

WIRAB submitted advice to the NERC Board of Trustees on the 2017 ERO Reliability Risk Priorities Report. The comments commend the Reliability Issues Steering Committee for developing an important and comprehensive report with many specific recommendations. The comments also recommend that the…