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  • WECC has developed a self-assessment to help entities strengthen their Internal Compliance Programs (ICP). An effective ICP helps entities prevent and detect noncompliance and promote a culture of commitment to reliability and security. WECC compiled the self-assessment based on observations of strong practices across the Western Interconnection.

  • On August 5, election ballots for Member Advisory Committee (MAC) Member Class Representatives were sent. The deadline to vote is Friday, September 5, at 3:15 p.m. Mountian. For inquiries, contact Brittany Huggins.

    Click on the candidate names to see more information:

    Class 1

    Class 2 

    • There were no vacancies in Class 2 and no election needed

    Class 3

    Class 4

    Class 5

    • No nominations were received, and this seat will remain vacant until a future date. More information will be released in the coming months.

  • The Nominating Committee (NC) completed an extensive search and made a unanimous recommendation for the nomination of Deneen DeFiore to the vacant Board of Directors seat, for her extensive experience and knowledge in current cyber-security risks, capabilities, strategies, and policies. Ballots were sent August 5 and the deadline to cast your vote is Friday, September 5, at 3:15 p.m. Mountain. For more information on Ms. DeFiore see the Nominating Committee recommendation and her bio. For inquires, contact Brittany Huggins. 

  • WREGIS Town Hall—Monday August 25, 2025; 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time

    WECC will host a second town hall to discuss the separation of WREGIS from WECC, establishing WREGIS as an independent company focused solely upon meeting the needs of its customers, stakeholders, and programs in the West.

    Please join us as we provide a status update and discuss the recommended corporate structure and governance for the stand-alone WREGIS. A comment period for the corporate structure and governance recommendation opened on August 1. Comments will be accepted through 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time, August 29. This town hall is also intended to be a forum to answer stakeholder questions and receive feedback.

    While this town hall is open to the public, to help us effectively use the time available, we encourage you to send questions in advance to [email protected]. Additionally, a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document has been posted on wecc.org. The FAQs are regularly updated to include new inquiries as this process develops.

    Town Hall link: WREGIS Town Hall | Western Electricity Coordinating Council

    Learn more here: WREGIS | Western Electricity Coordinating Council

  • WECC is seeking proposals from vendors qualified to provide full-service design and development of a cloud-based software platform to support the WREGIS program. Information about the project, including scope of work, deliverables, vendor qualifications, and timelines are provided in the RFP document.

    Key Dates:
    August 13, 2025—Expression of interest due
    August 29, 2025—RFP responses due 5:00 p.m. MT
    October 1, 2025—Award announced

  • WECC is seeking proposals from vendors qualified to provide full-service design and development of a cloud-based software platform to support the WREGIS program. Information about the project, including scope of work, deliverables, vendor qualifications, and timelines are provided in the RFP document.

    Key Dates:
    August 13, 2025—Expression of interest due
    August 29, 2025—RFP responses due 5:00 p.m. MT
    October 1, 2025—Award announced

     


     

  • The comment period on the recommended corporate structure and governance for WREGIS as a stand-alone entity is now open through August 29, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time. WECC invites stakeholders to comment on the recommendation. All submitted comments will be posted publicly on wecc.org and shared with WECC’s Board at its September meeting.

  • WECC held a Town Hall meeting on July 28, 2025, to discuss proposed changes to WREGIS.

  • WECC is accepting nominations for the 2024 Armando J. Perez Outstanding Contributor Award. This award recognizes a person or group who demonstrated commitment and support in delivering WECC’s reliability and security goals in the preceding year. Nominations will be accepted through August 14. Click here to download the nomination form and read a letter from Melanie Frye, President and CEO. Please contact Brittany Huggins if you have questions.

  • As previously announced, WECC and CleanCounts (f/k/a M-RETS) have an agreement under which CleanCounts provides software services to support WREGIS, the web-based tracking system for renewable energy certificates (REC), predominantly in the West. As we informed stakeholders on May 1, this agreement ends on December 31, 2027, and CleanCounts has opted not to extend the agreement beyond this date.  

    At the direction of the WECC Board of Directors, WECC will issue an RFP to third-party software developers for the development of custom software to meet the needs of WREGIS and its customers and stakeholders; and WECC will explore separation of WREGIS from WECC, establishing WREGIS as an independent company focused solely upon meeting the needs of its customers, stakeholders, and programs in the West. 

    WECC will host a virtual Town Hall on July 28 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Mountain. Please join us as we provide a status update and present the recommended corporate structure and governance for the stand-alone WREGIS. A comment period on the corporate structure and governance recommendation will be held from August 1 to 29. This town hall is also intended to provide a forum to answer stakeholder questions and receive feedback. 

    While this town hall is open to the public, to help us effectively use the time available, we encourage you to send questions in advance to [email protected]. Additionally, a Frequently Asked Questions document has been posted on wecc.org and will be updated to reflect new questions posed during the town hall.

  • WREGIS will be holding the WREGIS Committee (WC) and WREGIS Stakeholder Advisory Committee (WREGIS SAC) elections on September 10–11, 2025. 
    The seats for this election are:

    For the WC—

    1. Industry, Load-Serving Entity
    2. Industry, Generator

    For WREGIS SAC—

    1. Chair 

    Please see the WC and WREGIS SAC webpages for more information.

  • WECC will hold elections for the Member Advisory Committee (MAC) Member Class Representatives and is seeking nominations from interested parties. Click the links below for information on each Member Class election. Please send forms to Brittany Huggins by the close of business on Wednesday, July 30, and contact her with any questions.

    Class 1 Letter and Form
    Class 2 No class election
    Class 3 Letter and Form
    Class 4 Letter and Form
    Class 5 Letter and Form

  • WECC and CleanCounts (f/k/a M-RETS) have an agreement under which CleanCounts currently provides software services to support WREGIS, the web-based tracking system for renewable energy certificates (RECs), predominantly in the West. As we informed stakeholders on May 1, this agreement ends on December 31, 2027, and CleanCounts has opted not to extend the agreement beyond this date. 

    The expiration of the current software agreement with CleanCounts has created an opportunity to consider WREGIS’s future and how WREGIS can best meet the needs of its users and the programs it serves. To assist in determining the best path forward for WREGIS, WECC retained a consultant who has assisted us in conducting a thorough assessment of a variety of potential paths forward for WREGIS. The consultant offered an independent perspective on what is best for WREGIS and its many stakeholders. 

    At WECC’s June Board Meeting, recommendations were presented to WECC’s Board. Based upon those recommendations, the Board has instructed as follows: 

    • WECC will issue an RFP to third-party software developers for the development of custom software to meet the needs of WREGIS and its customers and stakeholders; and
    • WECC will explore separation of WREGIS from WECC, establishing WREGIS as an independent company focused solely upon meeting the needs of its customers, stakeholders, and programs in the West.

    There are a number of considerations that support the Board’s direction, primary among those are:

    • No turnkey software solutions exist for WREGIS, and the complexity of customizing an existing product to meet the unique needs of WREGIS’s users presents excessive implementation risk, as we have experienced over the past two years; and
    • Because WREGIS is WECC’s only non-statutory program, and because WECC is not a software development company, separating WREGIS from WECC will enable WREGIS to focus its efforts solely on providing software that meets the needs of its users, while also permitting WECC to focus on its statutorily delegated responsibilities.

    This work will be completed by December 31, 2027 at the very latest to minimize disruption to WREGIS’s customers. 

    As we explore the separation of WREGIS from WECC, we will be reaching out to engage stakeholders over the next few months. We look forward to hearing from you as we pursue a unique solution that will allow WREGIS to continue to perform its vital role in the Western Interconnection.

  • Each year, the Nominating Committee (NC) conducts an extensive search to nominate candidates for election by WECC Members to WECC’s Board of Directors. This year, the election was conducted May 12–June 6. We are pleased to announce that two candidates for director positions were elected: Jim Avery, who was re-elected as a director, and Jacinda Woodward, who was elected as a new director. Their terms will commence September 18 at the end of the Annual Member meeting.

    Further, WECC received feedback from some member representatives that the language in the May ballot was unclear as to how many candidates could be elected. For this reason, WECC will re-ballot one of the vacant seats. The NC has unanimously nominated Deneen DeFiore, who has extensive experience in cybersecurity and information technology, to fill this critical gap on the Board. 

    This will be balloted in conjunction with the annual elections for MAC class representatives, expected to be sent to member representatives on August 4. For questions, please contact Brittany Huggins. 

  • WECC is pleased to release the 2025 Summer Reliability Overview: Western Interconnection, a West-focused supplement to the recently released NERC Summer Reliability Assessment. This overview provides a summary of conditions affecting the 2025 summer operating season and high-level findings from the NERC Summer Reliability Assessment specific to the Western Interconnection.  

  • WECC’s Section 4.9 Review Work Group has engaged in a comprehensive review of WECC’s Bylaws to ensure that the Bylaws continue to align with WECC’s purpose as a Regional Entity under Section 215 of the Federal Power Act. A draft of the proposed revised Bylaws is now available for stakeholder review and comment until the close of business on June 20, 2025. To facilitate stakeholder review and comment, the Section 4.9 Work Group has prepared a table summarizing the most significant proposed revisions. (Note that this table does not identify all the proposed revisions.) To further facilitate review and comment, we are also posting a full redline that shows all of the revisions being proposed.

  • WECC has released the 2025 State of the Interconnection. This annual report provides a high-level look at reliability issues throughout the Western Interconnection over the recent past and near future. Among the issues examined are load growth, significant generation resource additions, cybersecurity and physical security events, extreme natural events, energy emergency alerts, and more. Explore the report here. 

  • The Reliability & Security Workshop recordings and presentations are available at wecc.org.

    You can also access the playlist of workshop recordings on YouTube.

  • Align activities are underway for entities in British Columbia. As of April 1, 2025, Self-Reports for new Possible Violations must be submitted in Align. Existing matters will migrate in the coming months. The Self-Report and Mitigation training presentation and recording are now available.

  • WECC has collaborated with Elevate Energy Consulting on an Assessment of Large Load Interconnection Risks in the Western Interconnection. This report is intended to help educate policymakers about the exponential growth of large loads and highlight the challenges and risks to reliability that are driven by the interconnection of these facilities, which include data centers, cryptocurrency mining operations, large industrial manufacturing facilities, aggregate transportation electrification, and more. Go here to learn about this emerging issue.

     

  • WECC has provided the 2024 Q4 Statutory Statement of Activities and Variance Report to NERC. If you have questions, please contact Adam Jensen.
     

  • To meet the skyrocketing demand growth tied to data centers and AI, an unprecedented amount of new generation is planned in the West over the next decade. Are these plans attainable? Find out more in WECC’s Western Assessment of Resource Adequacy. 

  • WECC has released the 2024 Western Assessment of Resource Adequacy. This annual report evaluates resource adequacy risk over the next 10 years. This year’s report reveals a sharp rise in large loads, creating the need for unprecedented resource additions. This presents an incredible challenge to the West. Explore more here.