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Western Power Pool outlines WRAP operations, governance and a revised transition plan to keep participants engaged
Summary
Rebecca Sexton of the Western Power Pool described WRAP's forward showing and operations programs, the qualifying capacity (QCC) approach, governance and a revised transition plan that extends discounted deficiency relief and clarifies critical-mass thresholds to enable more utilities to be binding later in the decade.
Rebecca Sexton, director of strategic engagement and communications at the Western Power Pool, gave a detailed briefing on the Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP), explaining how the forward showing (regional seasonal forward showing calibrated to a regional 1-in-10 reliability metric) and the operations program (sharing calculations and energy nondelivery charges) fit together.
Sexton described WRAP's qualifying capacity contribution (QCC) methodology and governance (participant committees, program review committee, committee of state representatives and an independent board) and summarized recent implementation work: dozens of business-practice manuals, winter nonbinding showings, and ongoing data QA/QC. On the transition plan, she said the participants endorsed extending the transition through March 15, 2029, added extra seasons to the nonbinding window, raised limits on excused transition deficits and reduced the deficiency charge during the first transition seasons so participants can stay in the program while they bring resources online.
Sexton acknowledged operational data and validation issues during nonbinding seasons and said participants are committed to delivering more disaggregated operations data to improve QA/QC. She also said WRAP will set business-practice-level thresholds for critical mass (currently three participants and defined GW thresholds) to allow subregions to proceed to binding only when grouping is representative and robust.
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