Even in its nonbinding phase, the Western Power Pool’s Western Resource Adequacy Program has been a valuable tool for working toward resource adequacy goals, program participants said.

Portland General Electric told Oregon regulators that after decades of electricity flowing from north to south through its system during the summer, the flow on a typical summer day has reversed.

The Oregon Senate is set to vote on a bill that aims to mitigate the impact of rising energy costs on consumers by prohibiting residential rate increases during the winter and requiring utilities and regulators to analyze consumer affordability when setting rates.

The formation of two competing day-ahead markets will create seams across the West, but at least one utility representative is more worried about seams resulting from the fracture of CAISO’s real-time Western Energy Imbalance Market.

FERC rejected a request by four Western utilities to rehear its approval of the “transmission contributors” option in the SPP Markets+ tariff but provided the utilities clarification on the boundaries of that provision.