Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC)
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Coordination between the gas and electric industries is becoming increasingly crucial to meet demand and to tackle extreme weather events, panelists participating in a WECC webinar argued.
Washington State Department of Transportation
As large swaths of the West continue to explore ways to mitigate wildfire risk, utilities say information sharing and new technologies allow them to implement targeted public safety power shutoffs.
CAISO
Out-of-state wind integration, merchant transmission development and the WestTEC planning effort are all factors influencing CAISO’s interregional transmission planning.
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The Bonneville Power Administration faces monumental challenges in implementing actions to meet the Pacific Northwest’s needs once it lifts its pause on transmission planning.
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Artificial intelligence may be helping employees streamline a variety of tasks, but AI is also making work easier for threat actors plotting cyber attacks against electric utilities, experts said during a WECC webinar.
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Peak demand in the Western Interconnection hit a record high of 168.2 GW in 2024, reflecting “early effects” of the growth in large loads such as data centers, according to a new WECC report.
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The Western Transmission Expansion Coalition is on track to publish the first phase of its transmission planning study this summer despite some delays in finalizing the models that will underpin the study.
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In the competition between two Western day-ahead markets — CAISO’s EDAM and SPP’s Markets+ — the two market operators have “sort of played off one another,” an industry observer said during a panel.
CPUC
California's grid is expected to meet peak demand this summer, with officials pointing to the massive growth in solar and storage resources as key.
Washington State Department of Corrections
A Washington state man who already was accused of damaging electric substations in Oregon now is charged with attacking multiple facilities in his home state.
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