The Northwest Power Pool is moving to wrap up the design phase of its regional resource adequacy program, stakeholders heard.

A recent report concluded that a Western resource adequacy program could require state regulators & utilities to relinquish some control over IRP processes.

A new WECC report recommends that utilities increase their coordination and adopt dynamic planning reserve margins to ensure resource adequacy.

SPP and Northwest Power Pool said they have agreed to work together in NWPP’s development of a comprehensive resource adequacy program.

NWPP members discussed a proposed resource adequacy program that would create a “binding” capacity mechanism for summer and winter.

The Northwest Power Pool held a webinar on efforts to create a resource adequacy program, discussing FERC oversight and a need to manage the program.

The Northwest Power Pool is planning a resource adequacy program to ensure sufficient capacity at a time of increasing retirements and shifts toward renewable energy.

SPP has added new markets for its members and extended its footprint to the Canadian border in the process.

The SPP Strategic Planning Committee is continuing discussions with the Northwest Power Pool.

The California ISO’s expansion of its energy imbalance market to six other states have some asking the question: Is this the beginning of an RTO West?