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Executive Director

Doug Larson
1600 Broadway
Suite 1700
Denver, Colorado 80202
Phone: 303.573.8910
Fax: 303.534.7309
 

 

 

WIEB Highlights ...

Recent WEBINARS

June 18, 2009
PGE's Renewable Integration Calculator [powerpoint]
Resource planners at PG&E developed an excel spreadsheet
model called the "Renewable Integration Calculator.
The model derives integration requirements across three
operational time frames: regulation, load following, and
day-ahead commitment.
June 30, 2009
NERC's Integration of Variable Generation
Task Force (IVGTF) Report on Accommodating
High Levels of Variable Generation [powerpoint]
This webinar will review the report that identifies and explains
technological issues, and provides a number of
recommendations for planners, operators and policy makers.

Federal Transmission Legislation

Comparison of Senator Bingaman's draft transmission legislation and Waxman-Markey transmission legislation (05-27-09)

Comparison chart of all major federal transmission legislation in house and senate (05-27-09)


Western Governors' Association

Western Governors' letter to Senate energy committee on Emerging Transmission Legislation (05-01-09)


Post... WIEB / CREPC Meetings

April 6-9, 2009
San Diego, CA
Holiday Inn on the Bay
WIEB / CREPC downloadable material

Western Interconnection Resource
Planning Forum

February 24-25, 2009 meeting
Load Serving Entities / Public Utility Commission
Resource Planners
downloads: agenda


Agencies Publish Final Environmental Impact Statement on Energy Corridor Designation in the West



From LBNL: Advanced Coal Wind Hybrid Project Study


WIRAB Job Opening: (description)

Electric Grid Reliability Engineer and Policy Analyst


Obama Energy Policy for America


A new LBNL report: Energy Efficiency as a preferred resource in the West.

Draws upon earlier work for WIEB/CREPC regarding the treatment of EE in IRP plans and includes an update of the assessment of the treatment of EE in 16 IRP plans of Western utilities plus an attempt to link the proposed EE activities/efforts of utilities to various policy drivers.




LBNL Study Assesses Western Utilities’ Plans to Respond to Possible Future Carbon Emission Regulation

Press Release Report



Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (WIRAB) advice to Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) on transmission expansion study request.


 

Comments of the High-Level Radioactive Waste Committee of the Western Interstate Energy Board on the "Draft Supplemental Enviornmental Impact Statement for a Geological Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain"


 

 


 

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