WECC should zero in on issues specific to the Western system when it sets near-term priorities for 2021 and 2022, stakeholders said at a workshop.

WECC will launch an initiative to tighten coordination and clarify who does what among the planning groups, utilities and industry stakeholders.

SPP became the first regional transmission organization to handle RC services in the Eastern and Western Interconnections.

Members of the WECC Member Advisory Committee heard a number of proposed changes to their charter, most prominently a plan to authorize electronic voting.

All systems are go as WECC enters the final stretch to ensure its dozens of balancing authorities safely integrate into new Reliability Coordinators.

The certification process for SPP’s reliability coordination function in the Western Interconnection began with an on-site visit by two dozen industry reps.

The Western Electricity Coordinating Council Board of Directors received a briefing on the Pacific Northwest’s early March price spike.

NERC CEO Jim Robb returned to his former workplace at the WECC last week for the first time since he took the nation’s top reliability job 15 months ago.

NERC is investigating Chinese ties to the vendor it selected for a high-profile software project, the Western Electricity Coordinating Council learned.

SPP has raised the stakes in what could shape up to be a long-term competition to win over the Western electricity market one service at a time.