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Senior Resource Adequacy Analyst

Bring deep resource adequacy and energy market expertise? Take ownership of complex compliance analysis supporting Western grid reliability.

 

Western Power Pool is hiring a Senior Resource Adequacy Analyst to join our team!

 

Key Details:

  • Pay: $112,600 – $128,000/year DOE

  • Location: Remote in select states - must reside wit…

News WestTEC

WestTEC 10-Year Study FAQs

Background 

What is WestTEC? 

WestTEC is an unprecedented partnership among diverse sectors of the energy industry, States and Tribes, environmental groups and project developers, that is focused on addressing urgent interregional transmission needs across the Western states. It is facilitated by the Western Power Pool …

Oct 10
Event WRAP - PRC

TASK FORCE MEETING - DEMAND RESPONSE QCC

Remote 1000 to 1200 PST/PDT
Sep 26
Event WRAP - PRC

TASK FORCE MEETING - DEMAND RESPONSE QCC [Inaugural]

Remote 1000 to 1200 PST/PDT
News

WRAP FAQs

Updated March 2022

What is the WRAP?

The Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP) is the first regional reliability planning and compliance program in the history of the West.

It will deliver a region-wide approach for assessing and addressing resource adequacy and provide an important step forward for reliability in the…

News WRAP

WRAP Momentum Continues with Board Approval of Tariff Changes, Business Practice Manuals

PORTLAND, Ore. – The momentum continues for the Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP).

Weeks after the WRAP Resource Adequacy Participant Committee (RAPC) approved a revised transition plan, the Western Power Pool Board of Directors on Thursday took a series of actions to move the program further along. The Boar…

News WRAP

Western Power Pool Statement in Response to WRAP Participant Letter to Stakeholders

Participants in the Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP) published a letter today in which they stated they will not elect to move to a binding program in Summer 2026. Instead, participants will propose a revised WRAP transition plan with the goal of beginning a binding program in 2027.

We have worked closely w…

News

WPP Announces FERC Approval of WRAP Tariff

Order cites reliability, resource adequacy, regional coordination among program’s benefits 

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Western Power Pool today announced that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved the tariff for the Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP), clearing the way for full implementation …

Feb 28
Event WRAP - RAPC

Meeting

Las Vegas, NV 0930 to 1700 PST/PDT