The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) invites you to register for Green Hydrogen Visions for the West, a virtual conference to specifically accelerate progress for green hydrogen market and infrastructure development in the Western United States. This event is hosted…

Fridays, September 11 – October 16, 2020 The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissions (NARUC) Subcommittee on Clean Coal and Carbon Management will conduct a six-part virtual workshop series that will take place…

With funding provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory conducted research on removing interconnection, reliability, and utility rate design barriers to distributed solar…

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) is pleased to announce the release of its Issue Brief on Wind Decommissioning Policies in the West. The Issue Brief on Wind Decommissioning Policies in the West is the result of a request by…

Thank you to all who were able to join us for the Fall 2019 Joint CREPC-WIRAB Meeting in San Diego, California.  We received wonderful attendance from state and provincial energy office officials, regulatory utility commissioners, consumer advocates, industry experts and…

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently published a joint NREL/WIEB report, “New Approaches to Distributed PV Interconnection: Implementation Considerations for Addressing Emerging Issues,” as part of the interconnection arm of WIEB’s Enhanced Distributed Solar PV Deployment Project. This report…

WIEB staff have been traveling to states across the West as part of outreach to discuss findings from a research project looking at barriers to solar PV deployment related to the interconnection process. This research has culminated in two reports,…

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) is pleased to announce the release of the attached Request for Proposal (RFP) to hire a contractor for a new study. This study will model and explore the operational flexibility of the electric power…

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) in early September 2018 to hire a contractor for a new study.  This study will model and explore the operational flexibility of the electric power system…

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) had joined Western Governors’ Association (WGA) and eight other leading associations of state officials to urge Congressional leadership to reject current legislative and administrative efforts to diminish states’ authority to manage water quality within…