2021 Annual Retrospective

A review of the accomplishments and milestones of 2021, and an overview of the changes and objectives for 2022 and beyond.

NWPP Announces Rebrand to Western Power Pool

PORTLAND, OR - Throughout its evolution over the last 80 years, the Northwest Power Pool (NWPP) has cooperatively addressed the present needs of the region, as it continues to do with today's unique challenges. The industry and the region rely on the NWPP to provide reserve sharing, operational collaboration, and training. With the recent award of the service contract for the NorthernGrid transmission planning organization and the ongoing development and implementation of the Western Resour…

Recording of 2022.02.04 Public Webinar

Recording of 2022.01.26 Public Webinar

Sector Contacts for Nominating Committee and Program Review Committee

The NWPP hosted a public meeting on January 12, 2022 to begin the process of standing up the Nominating Committee and WRAP Program Review Committee. In this meeting, some sectors had volunteers to lead their sector self-organization. If you are part of the following sectors and would like to be involved, please reach out to the contact information listed here:

• Independent power producers/marketers - Spencer Gray sgray@nippc.org
• Public interest organizations - Nicole Hughes&nbs…

WRAP working to stand up the Program Review Committee and Nominating …

PORTLAND, OR - The Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP) is taking the first steps toward standing up the Program Review Committee and Nominating Committee.

Program Review Committee (PRC)

The PRC is a stakeholder-based sector representative group; in the future FERC-jurisdictional binding program the PRC will be charged with receiving, considering, and proposing design changes to the WRAP, and will serve as the clearing house for most recommended design changes. These recommended …

WRAP Announces Full Participation of Phase 3A

PORTLAND, OR – The Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP), administered by the NWPP, is pleased to announce that it has entered the first stage of program implementation, Phase 3A.

This non-binding phase welcomes eight new participants to the WRAP. The participants in Phase 3A of the WRAP are: Arizona Public Service, Avangrid, Avista, Black Hills Energy, Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Bonneville Power Administration, Calpine, Chelan PUD, Clatskanie PUD, Douglas PUD, Eugene Water a…

Recording of 2021.11.17 WRAP Public Webinar

WRAP Area Map

• Arizona Public Service Company
• Avista Corp
• Bonneville Power Administration
• Calpine Energy Solutions
• PUD No. 1 of Chelan County  
• Clatskanie People’s Utility District
• Eugene Water & Electric Board
• PUD #2 of Grant County  
• Idaho Power
• NorthWestern Energy
• NV Energy
• PacifiCorp
• Portland General Electric Company
• Powerex Corp.
• Public Service Company of New Mexico
• Puget Sound Energy
• Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District
• Seattle City Light
• Shell Energy North America
• PUD No. 1 of Snoh…

NWPP President Frank Afranji Announces Retirement

Update: Frank Afranji will be staying on board as NWPP President through approximately late March. 

PORTLAND, OR – Frank Afranji, President of the Northwest Power Pool Corporation (NWPP Corporation) announced today that he will be stepping down from that role and retiring in January 2022. Afranji has been the NWPP Corporation President since August 2018. The NWPP Corporation helps to coordinate grid operations for eight western U.S. states and two provinces in western Canada.…