The buildout of new resources in the Western Interconnection over the next 20 years is “remarkably similar” across a variety of scenarios tested by NWPCC’s market availability study.

Speakers at a SERC-hosted webinar discussed the challenges presented by gas-electric interdependency and what state regulators and policymakers can do to help.

A new Berkeley Lab report weighs the benefits of storage versus transmission for wind and solar projects.

The coming decade will see “extraordinary reliability challenges and opportunities” amid rapid changes in the North American electric grid, NERC staff said.

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.

WECC's annual resource adequacy assessment warned that customers throughout the Western Interconnection will be at risk of load loss by 2025.

The Western Energy Imbalance Market Governing Body and CAISO Board of Governors were briefed on proposed changes to the WEIM resource sufficiency test.

WECC's annual Western Assessment of Resource Adequacy will focus on variability in demand and generation, the organization's Board of Directors heard Wednesday.

NPCC will focus next year on ensuring reliability, integrating DERs and renewables and protecting infrastructure from cyber and physical threats.

RTOs and ISOs described their strategies for using quick ramping products to offset weather-dependent renewable resources at a FERC conference Tuesday.