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Skilled in resource adequacy, compliance analysis, and working with utility data? Put your expertise to work supporting grid reliability across the West.

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

Key Details:

• Pay: $98,000 – $111,250/year DOE

• Location: Remote in select states - must reside…

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…

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) partici…

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…

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…

PORTLAND – A vote today by the Western Resource Adequacy Program’s Resource Adequacy Participant Committee (RAPC) paves the way for WRAP participants to enter a binding program in 2027.

RAPC members approved a new transition plan that outlines a gradual path to fully implement the WRAP. The plan pushes back the dea…

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 …

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Western Power Pool today announced that Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) has joined the Western Resource Adequacy Program, or WRAP. 

PNM’s participation expands the program’s overall footprint and region-wide collaboration and bolsters the desert southwest membership. 

“One of the …

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Western Power Pool today took a major step toward implementing the Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP) by filing the WRAP tariff at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

The WRAP is the first region-wide reliability planning and compliance program in the history of the West. The…

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Western Power Pool (WPP) Board of Directors on Wednesday approved the slate of nominees who would serve on the group’s new Independent Board of Directors.

WPP Board Chairperson Bill Drummond is the current board member selected to serve with four new members. Two other current board members – T…

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Western Power Pool today welcomed its first 11 official participants in the Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP).

The following utilities have formally committed to moving forward with the WRAP:

• Avista Utilities
• Calpine Energy Solutions
• Chelan Public Utility District
• Clatskanie …

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Western Power Pool Board of Directors yesterday voted unanimously to approve the tariff that will implement the Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP). Board approval was the final procedural step required before the tariff can be filed at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), anticip…