The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (“WIRAB”), Western Resource Advocates (“WRA”), Natural Resources Defense Council (“NRDC”), and Western Grid Group (“WGG”) submitted supplemental comments to the Peak Reliability Member Advisory Committee regarding the direction Peak should take with its Universal Data Sharing Agreement (“UDSA”) since the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (“FAST Act”) was signed into law. On March 1, 2016, Peak winnowed down the options for the Peak Board to consider at its March 2016 Board Meeting to three options. The group recommended a combination of two options that would: (1) put a hold on the third-party data sharing review process, but would allow for the sharing of a limited amount of predefined data and (2) would lead to the termination of the agreement in the case that the parties to the agreement cannot agree upon conforming changes to UDSA to address third-party sharing.
