The WGA Staff Council has held several conference calls and will be meeting on October 25-26 to decide on steps to implement the Governors' resolution.  The Board may play a large or small role in this effort that will produce recommendations by June 2006 on how to add 30,000 MW of "clean" energy by 2015 and increase energy efficiency by 20 percent by 2020.

·  Options Paper on Financing an Enhanced Electricity Function

In June, Western Governors accepted CREPC recommendations for an enhanced state/provincial regional electricity function and directed that a recommendation be developed to finance it.  They also asked for stakeholder comments on the proposal.  CREPC will hold a public comment meeting on the afternoon of October 21, after the CREPC meeting adjourns and before the WECC Board meeting begins on October 22. The leads of CREPC work groups on reliability, market monitoring, resource adequacy, transmission planning and expansion, and transmission permitting have develop a options paper and proposed recommendation for CREPC to consider at its meeting in Vancouver.

     · Rasa Keanini, WREGIS project manager, California Energy Commission

In April, the WIEB Board of Directors agreed to collaborate with the California Energy Commission in an analysis of the adequacy of the natural gas infrastructure in the West to support gas-fired electric generating plants.  This is one element of the analysis of resource adequacy requested by Western Governors that is not being addressed by WECC or CREPC’s West-Wide Resource Assessment Team.  Details of the modeling effort will be presented and important issues for further analysis will be identified.