On Friday, October 31, WPP Chief Strategy Officer Rebecca Sexton sent this notice to members of the WRAP Resource Adequacy Participants Committee, regarding participants committed to WRAP binding operations in Winter 2027/2028:
Today is the deadline set in the tariff for Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP) participants to notify us if they plan to exit the program before binding operations start in Winter 2027/2028.
As of the deadline there are 16 current participants that will remain in the program for binding operations, including five in addition to the 11 who sent a commitment letter last month, and we expect more companies to join in the future. The committed participants bring significant load (over 58,000 MW in peak load) and resources and a large, diverse geographic footprint, making WRAP one of the largest RA programs in the country and giving us critical mass for a binding program. The group includes members committed to or leaning toward both EDAM and Markets+, as well as some who have not indicated they will join a day-ahead market. The committed participants are:
- Arizona Public Service Company
- Avista Corp
- Bonneville Power Administration
- PUD No. 1 of Chelan County
- Clatskanie People’s Utility District
- Constellation
- PUD #2 of Grant County
- Idaho Power
- NorthWestern Energy
- Powerex Corp.
- Puget Sound Energy
- Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District
- Seattle City Light
- Tacoma Power
- The Energy Authority, Inc.
- Tucson Electric Power
The following companies provided formal notice of intent to exit:
- Calpine Energy Solutions
- Eugene Water & Electric Board
- NV Energy
- PacifiCorp
- Portland General Electric Company
- Public Service Company of New Mexico
To all participants, thank you for your efforts in the last six years to build WRAP into a program that can help the region tackle the significant challenge of resource adequacy.
To our exiting participants, over the next two years, we encourage you to stay engaged in committees, task forces, and the stakeholder process to continue to evolve and improve WRAP and potentially resolve the concerns that prevented you from committing to binding operations at this time. As we have communicated previously, should your concerns be resolved, you have the option to rejoin the program and can commit to the Winter 2027/2028 season as late as September 15, 2026.
We have received a lot of positive outreach and support as we neared this deadline, and I will share just one example - part of a note we received from Lauren Tenney Denison, Director of Market Policy & Grid Strategy for Public Power Council. She wrote, “You have designed a remarkable program, from the ground up. WRAP has forever changed the way the West approaches markets and regional programs. There is a large and diverse footprint of entities committed to the binding season. That is a lot to be excited about.”
I wanted you all to see this too because the congratulations for designing this program are for all of us and because there is a lot of progress to be excited about.
We look forward to continuing to work collaboratively to support reliability and resource adequacy across the West.