Strategic Planning - Operations Consolidation Proposal

Western's senior managers are exploring Operations consolidation as a way to become more efficient and to minimize future costs due to increasing work requirements associated with FERC's open access transmission and electric reliability standard requirements. To provide the most recent information on strategic planning and to get early customer input, customer meetings were held Feb. 12 and 14 in Phoenix and Loveland.

• Operations Consolidation Proposal background information (2,0380 kb pdf)
  • Final report of an in-house technical feasibility study on the merits of consolidating operations. Note: The proposal in this report is no longer under consideration.  See the Feb. 12 and 14 meeting presentation for the current proposal.
• Meeting agenda - Feb. 12 and 14 customer meetings (32 kb pdf)
• Feb. 12 and 14 meeting presentation, Preliminary Operations Consolidation Proposal (1,736 kb pdf)
• Video of Feb. 12 DSW customer meeting (172 MB .wmv)
• Customer questions and comments received since the February customer meetings
  • Feb. 18 - Colorado River Energy Distributors Association (524 kb pdf)
  • Feb. 19 - DSW Customers (677 kb pdf)
  • Feb. 22 - Arizona Power Authority (496 kb pdf) 
  • Feb. 22 - Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (178 kb pdf)
  • Feb. 25 - Arizona Public Service Company (136 kb pdf)
  • Feb. 25 - Colorado River Indian Tribes (153 kb pdf)
  • Feb. 28 - Loveland Area Customers Association (122 kb pdf)
  • March 7 - Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District (712 kb pdf)
  • March 13 - Salt River Project (364 kb pdf)
  • March 13 - Basin Electric Power Cooperative (77 kb pdf)
  • March 14 - Central Montana Electric Power Cooperative (945 kb pdf)
  • March 14 - Colorado River Energy Distributors Association (31 kb pdf)
  • March 14 - Mid-West Electric Consumers Association (101 kb pdf)
  • March 14 - Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association (1.4 MB pdf)
  • March 15 - Arizona Municipal Power Users' Association (133 kb pdf)
  • March 17 - Big Flat Electric Co-op (1.2 MB pdf)
• Western's responses to customer questions and comments, April 11 (3,451 kb pdf)
• Next steps - As a result of customer input, Western set new dates for the following:  
  • Western is hosting a meeting as follow-up to the February 2008 customer meetings held on our strategic planning process.  The meeting will take place on April 24, 2008, at 1 p.m., at Western’s Corporate Services Office's Conference Center located at 12155 West Alameda Parkway, Lakewood, Colorado (map).  Please RSVP to corpcomm@wapa.gov or call 720-962-7050.
  • Meeting agenda - April 24 (18 kb pdf)
  • Operations Consolidation presentation slides (1.3 MB pdf) - April 24 customer meeting
  • Administrator's presentation slides (252 kb pdf) - April 24 customer meeting