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WECC gathered leaders from the Western Interconnection’s four reliability coordinators to ask what keeps them up at night. | WECC
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WECC found that the southern portion of the Northwest Power Pool region could fail to meet resource adequacy requirements for three hours this year. | WECC
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The California-Mexico subregion cannot maintain resource adequacy without imports, and the greatest risk of shortages is in Southern California, WECC said. | WECC
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WECC’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
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The Northwest Power Pool is moving to wrap up the design phase of its regional resource adequacy program, stakeholders heard. | NWPP
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A new WECC report recommends that utilities increase their coordination and adopt dynamic planning reserve margins to ensure resource adequacy. | WECC
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The Texas Reliability Entity bid farewell to CEO Lane Lanford, Chair Fred Day and Director Delores Etter during its annual meeting. | Texas RE
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Western 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
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The Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Board recounted its accomplishments in 2020 and laid out what it hopes to achieve in 2021. | © ERO Insider
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Western utility regulators have no time to waste in addressing the region’s looming resource adequacy shortfalls, industry experts said. | WECC
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WECC is developing an information website as it uncovers more findings about the August heat wave that prompted CAISO to institute rolling blackouts. | WECC
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WECC 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
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WECC 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
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Winter 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
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NWPP members discussed a proposed resource adequacy program that would create a “binding” capacity mechanism for summer and winter. | NWPP
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The 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.
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WECC 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
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WECC kicked off a resource adequacy initiative that revealed how the organization hopes to position itself for the future. | WECC
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The 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
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The 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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