A group responsible for power market reliability in Western North America said the growing use of renewable generation will require the region to boost planning reserves in coming years to help maintain grid reliability.
The Western Electricity Coordinating Council said in a recent reliability assessment that planning reserve margins for 2023 rose from 16.9% in 2021 to 18.3% in 2022 due in part to the increase in variable resources, like wind and solar, that only produce power when the wind blows or the sun shines.
"If nothing is done to mitigate the long-term risks within the Western Interconnection, by 2025 we anticipate severe risks to the reliability and security of the interconnection," WECC said in the assessment. Over the next decade, WECC said entities in the West plan to retire nearly 26 gigawatts of mostly coal and natural gas-fired resources, and build close to 80 GW of mostly solar, wind, and battery storage.
That's due to actions taken after the August 2020 heat wave forced California's grid operators to impose rotating outages.
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