The meeting is an opportunity for state policy makers and regulators to convene and discuss regionalization of organized wholesale electricity markets in the West.  The 2-day workshop combines introductory presentations on organized wholesale electricity markets; hands-on game-based market simulation training…

The objective of this report is to introduce a framework for objectively reviewing and assessing the reliability and cost implications of a transition from a single Interconnection-wide Reliability Coordinator (RC) against the possibility of providing RC services in the Western…

Since 1975, the U.S. Department of Energy’s State Energy Program (SEP) and its predecessor programs have provided funding and technical assistance to states in the West and across the Nation, supporting efforts to advance a clean energy economy and maximize…

The draft Roadmap for Policy Makers: Options for Addressing Emerging Energy Issues in the West [pdf] is released for comment along with the technical briefing papers that is summarizes. All documents are available on the Idaho-WIEB State Energy Planning project…

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Electricity Markets and Policy Group jointly hosted a webinar on September 20, 2016 designed to support states considering and implementing EM&V activities to document energy and demand savings…

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) and the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) announced the Western Outreach Project in collaboration with California’s Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative 2.0 (RETI 2.0). This Outreach project solicited input from stakeholders across the…

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) and its sister organization, the Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB), are seeking applicants for the “Electric System Reliability Analyst” position. Click here for details.

The Western Interstate Energy Board seeks technical assistance from an experienced contractor to carry out a two-month outreach project that solicits and summarizes input from stakeholders across the Western Interconnection for consideration in California’s Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative 2.0 (RETI…

The Western Interstate Energy Board announces the availability of a new policy paper. The paper, entitled Distributed Energy Resource Interconnection Timelines and Advanced Inverter Deployment, is timely given the ever-increasing cumulative nameplate capacity of distributed energy resources in the Western…