Western states must work more closely to prevent capacity shortfalls and the type of energy crisis that roiled the region 20 years ago.

BPA will this summer join the ranks of Western transmission providers adopting a public safety power shutoff plan to prevent wildfires.

FERC Chair Richard Glick and NERC CEO James Robb: The West needs to build transmission lines to connect renewable resources to load.

FERC gave final approval Thursday for NERC and WECC to introduce regional reliability standard BAL-002-WECC-3.

PGE's CEO expressed regret over a breakdown in public communications as February's ice storms left nearly half the utility’s customers without power.

A new Lessons Learned report published by NERC goes over the mistakes that led to the fire and explosion of APS’ McMicken battery in Arizona.

FERC threw out a complaint by activist group CGNP against that sought to stop the closure of PG&E’s Diablo Canyon Power Plant.

WECC gathered leaders from the Western Interconnection’s four reliability coordinators to ask what keeps them up at night.

Staff will be allowed to return to WECC’s Salt Lake City office on a voluntary basis beginning April 5, CEO Melanie Frye said.

WECC found the southern portion of the Northwest Power Pool region could fail to meet resource adequacy requirements for 3 hours this year.