PacifiCorp doesn't seem to get the hint from the California Legislature and Governor that the state does not want more coal-fired power.... Instead PacifiCorp goes to the Feds.
The WIEB-CREPC is using a time-honored bureaucratic tactic in response to CGNP's May 8, 2024 filed opposition now available at https://tinyurl.com/WWGPI-Opposed on their website. CGNP was unable to locate any response to CGNP's opposition in their "Step 1 Recommendation" dated May 24, 2024. It should be no surprise that the word "emission" also does not appear - as in the large amounts of air and water pollution associated with PacifiCorp's mostly Wyoming-based coal-fired generation. Thus, it seems like the WWGPI is the best policy that Berkshire Hathaway's ample money can buy.
See in particular page 16 of 19 which includes the text, "This approach reflects the reality that state policies already create impacts throughout the WECC via bilateral transactions, including at wholesale market hubs, but that the centralized market is not a tool to force one state’s resource decisions or costs on another state’s customers.
The newly adopted decision principle articulates much of how state regulators have addressed
this state policy issue in recent years. As governance evolves away from a board appointed by
one state’s policymakers to a stakeholder-selected board," CGNP believes CAISO grid regionalization would be the death knell for California environmental legislation such as SB 1386 (Perata, 2006)
The WIEB-CREPC is using a time-honored bureaucratic tactic in response to CGNP's May 8, 2024 filed opposition now available at https://tinyurl.com/WWGPI-Opposed on their website. CGNP was unable to locate any response to CGNP's opposition in their "Step 1 Recommendation" dated May 24, 2024. It should be no surprise that the word "emission" also does not appear - as in the large amounts of air and water pollution associated with PacifiCorp's mostly Wyoming-based coal-fired generation. Thus, it seems like the WWGPI is the best policy that Berkshire Hathaway's ample money can buy.
See in particular page 16 of 19 which includes the text, "This approach reflects the reality that state policies already create impacts throughout the WECC via bilateral transactions, including at wholesale market hubs, but that the centralized market is not a tool to force one state’s resource decisions or costs on another state’s customers.
The newly adopted decision principle articulates much of how state regulators have addressed
this state policy issue in recent years. As governance evolves away from a board appointed by
one state’s policymakers to a stakeholder-selected board," CGNP believes CAISO grid regionalization would be the death knell for California environmental legislation such as SB 1386 (Perata, 2006)