CAISO is poised to take the lion’s share of the West in the competition for reliability coordinator (RC) customers, WECC revealed.

SPP will be a key player in the Western Interconnection, having agreed to administer a tariff that mitigates congestion via controllable devices.

The number of reliability coordinators in the Western Interconnection should come into focus on Sept. 4, WECC CEO Frye told the NERC Board of Trustees.

How many RCs there will be in the Western Interconnection, and who they are, should come into better focus on Sept. 4, said WECC CEO Melanie Frye.

SPP met in Colorado with Western entities that have expressed interest in its reliability coordinator services, committed to providing RC services for WECC.

Additional renewables and storage will not compensate for gas retirements in the Western Interconnection, a new WECC reliability assessment says.

NERC said that it has appointed Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) chief Jim Robb as its new president and CEO, effective April 9.

The chairman of NERC’s Board of Trustees said the organization hopes to have a new CEO in place by the summer.

The Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) expanded its footprint and ambitions in 2017 while new suitors lined up to compete with CAISO as the vehicle for a Western RTO.

The Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) board of directors endorsed a new three-year operating plan for the organization.