About Us

States and Provinces in the Western Interconnection have formed a new committee of representatives of Governors, Premiers and public utility commissioners to provide input in regional transmission planning and analysis in the interconnection. The State-Provincial Steering Committee consists of appointees from each
state and province in the Western Interconnection. The Western States' Water Council and the Western
Governors' Wildlife Council are ex-officio members of the Committee. The Committee has three tasks:

• Providing input into regional transmission planning;
• Improving the efficient use of the existing grid; and
• Enabling the integrating of large amounts of variable generation

The purpose of this Regional Transmission Expansion Project is to inform investor decisions on where to build new transmission not to control the decision making process.

Invitation for Stakeholder Participation

The State-Provincial Steering Committee (SPSC) invites stakeholder participation in its ongoing activities. If you would like to be added to the general listserve for ongoing SPSC communications, please send an email to sharon@westgov.org.

In addition, SPSC has work groups to address specific topics. Please exploreour overall website to learn more about these focused activities. Each work group has a dedicated web page which includes an invitation for your participation.