Western RA Planning Must Change, WECC Says
December 22, 2020A new WECC report recommends that utilities increase their coordination and adopt dynamic planning reserve margins to ensure resource adequacy. | WECC
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Regional Entities News
WECC Taking Wait-and-See on COVID Measures
December 11, 2020With COVID-19 threatening to overwhelm hospitals, WECC is in no hurry to bring employees back to work at its Salt Lake City headquarters, CEO Melanie Frye said. | © ERO Insider
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Texas RE Says Goodbye to CEO, Chair
December 11, 2020The 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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WECC Says Extreme Events Require Forecast, RA Changes
December 11, 2020Western 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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Reserve Shortfalls Seen for MISO and Ontario, MRO Told
December 8, 2020Planned reserves will fall below reference margins in MISO and Ontario within the next five years, NERC told MRO in a preview of its Long-Term Reliability Assessment. | NERC
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FBI Sees No Rest from Cyber Battles in 2021
December 8, 2020Foreign adversaries continue to hone their cyber threat strategies against the North American bulk power system, cybersecurity experts told the MRO. | FBI
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WIRAB Reviews Past Year, Looks Ahead to Next
December 6, 2020The 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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ReliabilityFirst Annual Meeting Briefs: Dec. 3, 2020
December 4, 2020ReliabilityFirst’s annual meeting saw presentations to the regional entity’s membership and Board of Directors on a variety of topics. | ReliabilityFirst
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WECC Overhauls, Expands Stakeholder Committee Plan
December 3, 2020WECC released a heavily revised version of its proposal to reorganize its stakeholder committee structure in response to member comments and concerns. | WECC
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DOE Congestion Study Prompts Industry Criticism
December 2, 2020Industry commenters accused DOE of overlooking crucial recent energy trends and relying on unexamined assumptions in its latest study of transmission congestion. | Department of Energy
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