Western Interstate Energy Board Reserve Expenditure Plan

The purpose of the Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) Reserve Expenditure Plan is to reduce WIEB’s financial reserves to the targeted level of reserves over a 10-year time-period—by funding electricity and non-electricity energy projects—and to establish a process by which WIEB will select projects to receive discretionary reserve funding. The WIEB Board adopted the REP Plan on July 27, 2017.

A few of the REP projects completed:

• Advanced Nuclear in the West Workshop
• Critical Minerals in the West
• Western Wildfire Risks and Best Practices Workshop
• Demand Response Policy Survey of Western States
• Temperature and Precipitation Trends in the Western States—Implications for Electricity Demand, Forecasting and Reserve Margin Metrics
• Inventory of Renewable and Clean Energy Policies of Western States and Provinces
• Wind Turbine Decommissioning Study  
• Overcoming EV Infrastructure Challenges
• Manufactured Housing Solar Potential Study
• Resource Adequacy in the Western Interconnection
• Flexibility Assessment of the Western Interconnection