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RECENT NEWS

WRAP Committee Approves New Transition Plan, Looks to Summer 2027 Bin…

PORTLAND – A vote today by the Western Resource Adequacy Program’s Resource Adequacy Participant Committee (RAPC) paves the way for WRAP participants to enter a binding program in 2027.

RAPC members approved a new transition plan that outlines a gradual path to fully implement the WRAP. The plan pushes back the deadline to elect to go binding in 2027 and temporarily reduces charges when participants are short on capacity.

“The plan helps in three critical ways,” sa…

Aug. 29, 2024, 12:33 p.m.

2024 Engineers Forum

July 19, 2024, 8:29 a.m.

New Members Successfully Integrated into Northwest Power Pool Reserve…

Yearlong ‘tremendous’ effort culminates in cutover on May 1

PORTLAND, Ore. – After a yearlong complex implementation effort, 10 new members successfully joined operations of the Northwest Power Pool Reserve Sharing Group on May 1.

The new participants are former members of the Southwest Reserve Sharing Group, coming from Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Nevada, California’s Imperial Valley and Texas. They reached an agreement in June 2023 to join the NWPP Reserve Shar…

May 28, 2024, 9:31 a.m.