Sleepless in the West: RCs Discuss Biggest Concerns
March 19, 2021WECC gathered leaders from the Western Interconnection’s four reliability coordinators to ask what keeps them up at night. | WECC
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WECC gathered leaders from the Western Interconnection’s four reliability coordinators to ask what keeps them up at night. | WECC
Read MoreWECC found that the southern portion of the Northwest Power Pool region could fail to meet resource adequacy requirements for three hours this year. | WECC
Read MoreThe California-Mexico subregion cannot maintain resource adequacy without imports, and the greatest risk of shortages is in Southern California, WECC said. | WECC
Read MoreWECC’s Desert Southwest region is at risk of failing to meet loads during its peak hour this year even under the most optimistic assumptions according to a new report. | WECC
Read MoreThe Northwest Power Pool is moving to wrap up the design phase of its regional resource adequacy program, stakeholders heard. | NWPP
Read MoreA new WECC report recommends that utilities increase their coordination and adopt dynamic planning reserve margins to ensure resource adequacy. | WECC
Read MoreThe Texas Reliability Entity bid farewell to CEO Lane Lanford, Chair Fred Day and Director Delores Etter during its annual meeting. | Texas RE
Read MoreWestern BAs should determine what caused errors in their load and generation forecasts during August’s massive heat wave and fix their forecasting processes, WECC said. | WECC
Read MoreThe Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Board recounted its accomplishments in 2020 and laid out what it hopes to achieve in 2021. | © ERO Insider
Read MoreWestern utility regulators have no time to waste in addressing the region’s looming resource adequacy shortfalls, industry experts said. | WECC
Read MoreWECC is developing an information website as it uncovers more findings about the August heat wave that prompted CAISO to institute rolling blackouts. | WECC
Read MoreWECC will take an interconnection-wide approach as it analyzes the events stemming from an August heat wave that prompted CAISO to initiate rolling blackouts. | WECC
Read MoreWECC Board Chair Kristine Hafner yielded her position to Vice Chair Ian McKay at the regional entity’s annual meeting, during which the board approved its long-term strategy. | Chad Coleman/WECC
Read MoreWinter is replacing summer as the period of greatest stress on the BPS thanks to the growing diversity of fuel sources, according to NERC’s 2020 State of Reliability Report. | NERC
Read MoreNWPP members discussed a proposed resource adequacy program that would create a “binding” capacity mechanism for summer and winter. | NWPP
Read MoreThe California Public Utilities Commission rejected a huge boost in megawatts for the San Francisco Bay Area that CAISO insists NERC and WECC reliability standards require.
Read MoreWECC took a step further into its new role as RA monitor for the Western Interconnection after its board approved a resolution listing the risk factors it plans to prioritize in the coming years. | © ERO Insider
Read MoreWECC kicked off a resource adequacy initiative that revealed how the organization hopes to position itself for the future. | WECC
Read MoreThe Northwest Power Pool held a webinar on efforts to create a resource adequacy program in the West, discussing potential FERC oversight and the need to hire professionals to develop and manage the program. | NWPP
Read MoreThe Northwest Power Pool is planning a resource adequacy program to ensure sufficient capacity at a time of increasing retirements and shifts toward renewable energy in the West. | Spokane, Wash.
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