Nearly a dozen utilities committed to joining the “binding” iteration of the Western Resource Adequacy Program, with more expected to sign on later this month.

WECC directors said that Westerners should take cold comfort from the fact that grid operators were able to avert blackouts during a September heat wave.

FERC asked for more information on the Western Resource Adequacy Program, including how it would accommodate participants without market-based rate authority.

The commission ordered the ERO to submit an array of additional information on costs related to the E-ISAC in its 2023 budget.

WECC said the addition 80 GW of wind and solar resources to the Western grid in the next decade will require higher planning reserve margins than anticipated.

The WPP's future independent board will include the previous PJM CEO, a former member of WEIM's Governing Body and WPP’s present board chair, among others.

WPP's Western Resource Adequacy Program issued its first findings, a broad survey of capacity and needs across much of the Western Interconnection.

WECC said it struck “gold” from the details it gleaned from stakeholder interviews on the greatest challenges to transmission planning in the West.

At its first in-person gathering since the onset the pandemic, WECC convened a forum to learn what keeps members up at night when they think of the future.

Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency to increase energy production and reduce demand in response to a heat wave hitting California.