The spring joint meeting of the Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation and the Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body focused on grid reliability and protecting crucial infrastructure.

The formation of a Western energy market was a contentious topics of discussion at the fall joint meeting of CREPC and WIRAB.

FERC approved reliability standards for mitigating supply chain risks in industrial control system hardware, software and computing and networking services.

FERC approved reliability standards for mitigating supply chain risks in industrial control system hardware, software and computing and networking services.

WECC focused on the issues and challenges surrounding the balkanization of reliability coordination in the Western Interconnection at its annual meeting.

The West’s utility regulators took a crash course on the legal implications of their utilities joining organized electric markets (RTOs)at the spring 2018 joint CREPC-WIRAB meeting.