WIRAB Webinar Series – Grid Reliability and the Changing Resource Mix 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…

Price Formation in Wholesale Electricity Markets The primary role of a market price is to reflect equilibrium between supply and demand. In a well-functioning and competitive wholesale electricity market, the market price represents the cost per megawatt-hour to procure the…

WIRAB Webinar Series – Grid Reliability and the Changing Resource Mix 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…

Resource Adequacy Program for Electric Utilities in the West The Northwest Power Pool, with the financial support of 18 of its 35 members, has embarked on the design of a voluntary Resource Adequacy Program for electric utilities in the West. …

WIRAB Webinar Series – Grid Reliability and the Changing Resource Mix 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…

The Western Interstate Energy Board is pleased to announce the release of the Western Flexibility Assessment.  This study investigates the flexibility of a future western grid in which renewable resources are deployed at levels consistent with enacted and foreseeable public…

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) – Stanford University 2019 Summer Interns hosted a webinar presenting the culmination of their work on analysis of shipping priorities for transporting commercial spent nuclear fuel in the United States. The interns analyzed spent…

With increasing penetrations of variable energy resources on both the transmission and distribution systems, utilities need to adapt how they manage their resources to integrate the variable resources and load while maintaining reliability. One tool available to system operators to…

The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee (HLRWC) has gathered and distilled the experience it has developed over decades of engagement with various nuclear waste transportation programs into nine policy papers. The HLRWC collectively developed and approved…

The U.S. statutory definitions of “high-level radioactive waste” (HLW) have long been criticized for being largely based on the source of the nuclear waste, rather than being based on the waste’s characteristics, desired disposal pathways, or risk management ideas. In…