The CREPC-WIRAB spring meeting focused on regional markets and transmission planning in the West, including FERC's recent transmission planning NOPR.

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

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

A discussion on diversity in the energy industry, hosted by CREPC-WIRAB, delved into resource adequacy and the potential for a Western RTO.

Advisers to Western state governors briefed stakeholders on the Western Interconnection Regional Electricity Dialogue (WIRED) initiative.

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.