Northwest Regional Capacity Adequacy

Given the recent trend in decommissioning coal plants and increasing renewable integration, concerns have been raised about the adequacy of the Transmission system in the Northwest Region. In late 2018 the NWPP hired Don Johnson (on contract basis) to assist Gary Keenan to conduct an analysis of Transmission Adequacy in the NWPP foot-print. Don came to the Power Pool with over 40 years of experience in the Northwest and was previously hired by the US government to teach transmission planni…

How do Resources work?

On nwpp.org, documents of any kind are called "resources", and are represented by a square card surrounded in a colored border. The color is determined by the workgroup associated with the resource. A single resource can have as many as five documents available for download. Simply hover your cursor (or "mouseover") the resource card, and the document links will rise from the bottom. Click the links to download the document.

Not all resources can be seen by…

Staff Spotlight - Jessica Zamonis

Due to the continued success and develoment of the NWPP source.training eLearning platform, the NWPP Corporation is pleased to announce the expansion of its training team with the addition of Jessica Zamonis. Mrs. Zamonis, previously of NV Energy, has been hired as the Training Coordinator and Technical Advisor for the eTraining course creation process.

At NVE, Jessica was a Senior Engineer in the Grid Operations department focused on training Transmission, Balancing Authority, and…

Episode 01 - NERC Lessons Learned Podcast

Lesson Learned - Breaker Failure Due to Trip Coil Polarity

Below is the full transcript for this episode. If you'd like to review or follow along with the original .pdf version of this NERC Lesson Learned, click here.

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Greg Park:From a system operator perspective, it is interesting to understand, or important to understand, that if you don't have a operational trip coil, you cannot open that breaker. You can't open it locally, can't open it remote…

How Northwest Utilities Harness Diversity for Efficient Compliance

How Northwest Utilities Harness Diversity for Efficient Compliance

by Sarah Dennison-Leonard

Introduction

The region known as the Northwest Power Pool spans an area encompassing Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, portions of Montana, Wyoming, and northern California, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. This article describes how electric utility operators (known as “Balancing Authorities”) in the Northwest Power Pool area cooperate to manage sy…

2018 source.training Update

https://source.training/

NWPP Corporation Elects Bill Drummond Chairman of the Board of Direct…

1 September 27, 2018
For more information, please contact:
Frank Afranji 503-445-1074 or Frank.Afranji@NWPP.com

Northwest Power Pool Corporation Elects Bill Drummond, Chairman of the Board of Directors

[PORTLAND, Ore.] – The Northwest Power Pool corporation (NWPP Corporation) announced today its Board of Directors has elected Mr. Bill Drummond as Board Chairman of the nonprofit that helps coordinate electric grid operations for the Northwestern United States and Western Canada. T…