NWPP Resource Adequacy Program Stakeholder Advisory Committee Members
Jeff Blend, Montana Energy Office
John Crider, Oregon Public Utility Commission
John Francisco, Northwest Requirements Utilities
Maury Galbraith, Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body
Vijay Satyal, Western Resource Advocates
Fred Huette and Lauren McCloy, Northwest Energy Coalition
Mike Goet…
Northwest Power Pool Hires Southwest Power Pool to Aid in Resource Adequacy Program Development
PORTLAND, OR – Northwest Power Pool (NWPP) has hired Southwest Power Pool, Inc. (SPP) to act as the Program Developer in its effort to develop a resource adequacy program for its member utilities.
In this role, SPP will work with the NWPP and its participating member utilities to expand and refine the preliminary p…
Q&A re: ERCOT Load Shed Event
What was the February 2021 cold weather event that resulted in load shed in ERCOT and SPP?
The polar vortex event was an extreme weather event that resulted in massive load shed in both ERCOT and the Southwest Powerpool. This event occurred due to a confluence of factors, including a failure to adequately winterize…
NWPP Releases Detailed Design of Resource Adequacy Program
PORTLAND, OR – The Northwest Power Pool (NWPP) and participating member utilities in the resource adequacy program development effort have released a detailed design of a resource adequacy program for interested utilities in the West.
“We are very excited to share with the region the progress we’ve made over the la…
WRAP Reaches Next Major Milestone
PORTLAND, OR – The Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP), administered by the Northwest Power Pool (NWPP), has completed the primary design phase of the program development and is gearing up to implement the first stage of its program in which program participants will commit to meeting a common resource adequacy p…
WRAP working to stand up the Program Review Committee and Nominating Committee
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…
WPP to be led by transmission expert Sarah Edmonds
For more information, please contact: Bill Drummond, 406-544-0510 or WKDrummond@comcast.net
[PORTLAND, Ore.] – The Northwest Power Pool Corporation, doing business as the Western Power Pool (WPP), announced today its Board of Directors has selected Sarah Edmonds as President and CEO. WPP is a nonprofit corporation …
First Full Set of Non-Binding Data Highlights Importance of WRAP
PORTLAND, Ore. – Current participants in the Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP) project a changing resource mix within the next five years, according to the proposed resource portfolios analyzed for the first non-binding phase of the WRAP. The modeling and its resulting set of metrics, including increasing requi…