
RELIABILITY ASSURANCE
WAPA proactively addresses system reliability and contingency planning. Delivering on our mission of marketing federal hydropower throughout 15 states requires us to continually study and analyze operations. We partner with our customers and neighboring utilities with the goal of improving situational awareness for transmission operators and reliability coordinators, so they are prepared for a worst-case scenario in real-time conditions.
Learn more about our ongoing reliability efforts:
- Real-Time Engineer Fact Sheet
- Reliability: Studying, coordinating operations both in advance and real-time, April 2017
- MRO issues final compliance report for WAPA, April 2017
- NERC/WECC Reliability Assurance Project of the Western Interconnection report, December 2016
- RM impresses compliance auditors, September 2015
- Real-time contingency analysis to improve grid awareness, September 2015
- Reduce risk, increase reliability, August 2015
Last modified on June 21st, 2023