Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC)

LG Energy Solutions
CEC Awards $28M for New Battery Facility in Hayward
The California Energy Commission approved a $28 million grant to Electrochemistry Foundry for the development of a battery fabrication and testing facility in Hayward.
GAO
NERC Task Force Members Talk Internal Controls Improvements
Members of the ERO's Internal Controls Task Force shared the group's progress toward creating a systemwide approach to internal controls audits.
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West Must Step up Gas-electric Coordination, WECC Panelists Say
Coordination between the gas and electric industries is becoming increasingly crucial to meet demand and to tackle extreme weather events, panelists participating in a WECC webinar argued.
Washington State Department of Transportation
New Tech, Collaboration Key to Targeted PSPS, WECC Panelists Say
As large swaths of the West continue to explore ways to mitigate wildfire risk, utilities say information sharing and new technologies allow them to implement targeted public safety power shutoffs.
CAISO
Inland Wind, Merchant Projects, WestTEC to Guide CAISO Interregional Planning
Out-of-state wind integration, merchant transmission development and the WestTEC planning effort are all factors influencing CAISO’s interregional transmission planning.
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Industry Sees Challenges as BPA Considers ‘Radical’ Updates to Transmission Planning
The Bonneville Power Administration faces monumental challenges in implementing actions to meet the Pacific Northwest’s needs once it lifts its pause on transmission planning.
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AI Adds New Dimension to Utility Cyber Threats, Experts Say

Artificial intelligence may be helping employees streamline a variety of tasks, but AI is also making work easier for threat actors plotting cyber attacks against electric utilities, experts said during a WECC webinar.

WECC
WECC Report Highlights Larger Loads, Longer Emergencies
Peak demand in the Western Interconnection hit a record high of 168.2 GW in 2024, reflecting “early effects” of the growth in large loads such as data centers, according to a new WECC report.
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WestTEC Tx Study on Track Despite Delays
The Western Transmission Expansion Coalition is on track to publish the first phase of its transmission planning study this summer despite some delays in finalizing the models that will underpin the study.
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Panel Explores How Western Markets Have ‘Played off’ Each Other
In the competition between two Western day-ahead markets — CAISO’s EDAM and SPP’s Markets+ — the two market operators have “sort of played off one another,” an industry observer said during a panel.

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