Past WIRAB Meetings
WIRAB Coordination Meeting with Peak and WECC Class 5 Members (December 2016)
Friday, December 2, 2016 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) staff is conducting its quarterly coordination meeting with Peak Reliability (Peak) Class 5…
Fall 2016 Joint WIRAB-CREPC Meeting
The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) and the Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation (CREPC) met on October 31-November 2 at the U.S. Grant Hotel in San Diego, CA.…
WIRAB Webinar on Critical Energy-Electric Infrastructure Information
The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (“WIRAB”) hosted a webinar on the designation, protection, and sharing of critical electric infrastructure information. Critical electric infrastructure refers to systems or assets of…
WIRAB Staff Comments on Peak Reliability 2016 Strategic Plan
The Staff of the Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (“WIRAB Staff”) submitted comments on Peak Reliability’s March 30, 2016 draft 2016-2020 Strategic Plan. WIRAB Staff emphasized that the goal of…
Spring 2016 Joint WIRAB-CREPC Meeting
The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) and the Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation (CREPC) met on April 26-27 at the Marriott City Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.…
Advice of WIRAB on the FERC NOI on Primary Frequency Response (Docket No. RM16-6-000)
The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (“WIRAB”) submitted advice to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) on its 2016 Notice of Inquiry (“NOI”) on Essential Reliability Services and the Evolving…
WIRAB webinar on Primary Frequency Response
The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) hosted a one-hour webinar – led by Debra Lew and Nick Miller of GE Energy – on primary frequency response (PFR) of generators…
Control Performance Standard BAL-001-2
July 13, 2015 | Control Performance Standard BAL-001-2 | [presentation] | NERC’s new reliability control standard, BAL-001-2, became effective June 21, 2015. The purpose of this reliability standard is to…
Grid Authority and Performance
July 6, 2015 | Grid Authority and Performance | [presentation] | This webinar covered the history and evolution of NERC’s authority and explained how reliability standards are developed and enforced.…