The creation of a Western RTO could save the region more than $1.2 billion annually in electric costs, according to a new study.

The spring joint meeting of the Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation and the Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body focused on grid reliability and protecting crucial infrastructure.

The formation of a Western energy market was a contentious topics of discussion at the fall joint meeting of CREPC and WIRAB.

The West’s utility regulators took a crash course on the legal implications of their utilities joining organized electric markets (RTOs)at the spring 2018 joint CREPC-WIRAB meeting.

Energy storage can provide many benefits to the Western electricity grid, but it will require complex and costly modeling to be integrated properly.