Western Power Pool

Western resource adequacy program ("wrap") - the nwpp administered the development of a regional resource adequacy program for approximately 20 member participants in the Western interconnection. During the period, the nwpp cooperatively developed terms and conditions, with the members organizations, for participation and operation of the program. This program is described in a tariff document for member organization approval to file with the federal energy regulatory commission after june 30, 2022.

Transmission planning services - the nwpp provides transmission planning services to the member organizations to support their federal energy regulatory commission and nerc compliance obligations. Specific accomplishments include publishing the 2020-21 northerngrid regional transmission plan for 14 members, coordination of eleven Power flow base cases among 11 members, and steady -state and dynamic model validation for 14 members.

Reserve sharing group - the nwpp administers a program to operate a reserve sharing group for 22 members operating 25 electric Power system balancing authority areas in the Western interconnection. This program comprises: a real-time software application that computes and allocates the pooled contingency reserve requirement to the participating authority areas, documentation of the program's compliance with the north american electric reliability corporation ("nerc") bal-002-3 - disturbance control reliability standard - contingency reserve for recovery from a balancing contingency event and bal-002-wecc-3 - contingency reserve, and all associated audits and other related regulatory activities.