Western Resource Adequacy Program

And if you don't mind going back to resource adequacy for a moment, as you did state in the letter, a structured resource adequacy program is essential to a well-operating market.

And as you know, in Markets Plus, of course, it's a requirement that participants are also in the Western Resource Adequacy Program.

And WRAP is a lot further along in the process of having that tariff filed.

at FERC and I'm wondering why you didn't just perhaps suggest everybody join RAP and let's just you know make it so and you know it if that's still perhaps an option I do know that the folks at the Regional Organization for Western Energy or ROE as we have alluded to before are well not ROE is not working on it but there are EDAM entities working on an RA program, but why not just go with the one that already seems to be tried and true, though some EDAM entities that were in it have departed?

Um, and so I think it, I think the, um, you know, contributions from these studies have been many and varied.

And in fact, I think part of also the outcome of that twenty eighteen study was, uh, helping to drive the development of the Western Resource Adequacy Program, which I know again, we're gonna kinda talk about regional coordination, but that really is one of the first steps, is really understanding on a regional basis, you know, what, what position are we in and, and who has responsibility for adding capacity and, and contributing kinda their share.

So I think that's, that's something that really stemmed from, from that study.

And, and I think now we're, we're similarly, I think, thinking about what actions need to be taken, what are we learning from this most recent study, and then what actions need to be taken in the region to address some of these challenges.