Flexibility, Solar, Reliability
Lee Boughey is Tri-State Generation & Transmission Vice President of Communications.
With a focus on electric system reliability across the West, not-for-profit wholesale power supplier Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association is making significant progress in its energy transition, reaching fifty percent clean energy used by its members next year and seventy percent at the end of the decade. The broad transition includes recent milestones for member flexibility, new solar, and enhanced reliability.
Tri-State's members, including distribution cooperatives and public power districts across four states, will have increased flexibility to self-supply more power through a Bring Your Own Resource program filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on June 7. If approved by FERC, members would be able to supply up to forty percent of their power requirements by building, owning, or contracting for new generation projects, many of which are expected to be renewable.