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2020 PNUCC
BREAKING NEWS
ANNUAL MEETING
Market transformation have continued to be engaged in market • Utilities demonstrated true heart and
remains above the fold transformation efforts to maximize the value compassion for customers, offering
of the system and benefit Northwest utilities substantive aid through the initial
With a focus on the greater region, PNUCC
and their customers. economic downturn.
members are working tirelessly as participation
• Leaders recognized that operations can
in the energy imbalance market grows and
efforts continue on the details around a Opinion: Silver linings continue efficiently and effectively with
possible extended day ahead market. Regular amid the challenges employees working remotely, raising
briefings are occurring at PNUCC meetings interesting possibilities about where
While 2020 seemed to careen from one crisis we go in the future.
where members are engaging in the finer
to another, PNUCC members found plenty of
points of interest, including governance. • There is no substitute for in-person
good news this year. Here are just a few of the
On the transmission side, NorthernGrid, a positive things we will take away: meetings! Even so, virtual meetings
cohesive regional transmission planning proved effective with broader participation
• PNUCC members were able to deftly and increased levels of engagement.
organization that consolidates planning efforts
pivot from one challenge to the next,
was launched. It is a single entity where That said, the thoughtful and meaningful
demonstrating we are nimble, flexible
transmission planning can be done, enabling discussions of 2020 demonstrated over
and adaptive.
one common set of data and assumptions to and over how bringing the power of good
eliminate duplicative processes. • Every member utility was able to continue ideas together is a hallmark of PNUCC.
providing critical services during the
The events of 2020 could have overshadowed
pandemic’s most trying times.
any of these efforts, yet, PNUCC members
Bringing the power of good ideas together
is a hallmark of PNUCC.
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