Strategic Planning - Operations Consolidation

Western's senior managers decided Operations consolidation will make the organization more efficient and will minimize future costs due to increasing work requirements associated with FERC's open access transmission and electric reliability standard requirements. Western presented its revised Operations Consolidation proposal to customers on April 24. Through careful consideration of the comments and the extensive research and analysis by staff, Western is moving forward with Option C (consolidating operations with the Rocky Mountain and Desert Southwest regions serving as alternative control centers for each other) of the proposal. Western believes that by moving forward with Option C, we will maximize our resources and staff to better serve customers.

• Operations Consolidation Proposal background information (20,380 kb pdf)
  • Final report of an in-house technical feasibility study on the merits of consolidating operations. Note: The proposal in this report is no longer under consideration.  See the Feb. 12 and 14 meeting presentation for the current proposal.

April Customer Meeting

• Western's response to customer questions and comments, June 13 (78 kb pdf)
• Customer questions and comments received following the April customer meeting
  • May 8 - Arizona Power Authority (185 kb pdf)
  • May 16 - Arizona Municipal Power Users' Association (436 kb pdf)
  • May 16 - Colorado River Energy Distributors Association (28 kb pdf)
  • May 16 - Irrigation & Electrical Districts Association of Arizona (30 kb pdf)
• Video of April customer meeting (261 MB .wmv)
• Administrator's presentation slides (252 kb pdf) - April 24 customer meeting
• Operations Consolidation presentation slides (1.3 MB pdf) - April 24 customer meeting
• Meeting agenda - April 24 (18 kb pdf)

February Customer Meetings

• Western's responses to customer questions and comments, April 11 (3,451 kb pdf)
• Customer questions and comments received since the February customer meetings
  • Feb. 18 - Colorado River Energy Distributors Association (524 kb pdf)
  • Feb. 19 - DSW Customers (677 kb pdf)
  • Feb. 22 - Arizona Power Authority (496 kb pdf) 
  • Feb. 22 - Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (178 kb pdf)
  • Feb. 25 - Arizona Public Service Company (136 kb pdf)
  • Feb. 25 - Colorado River Indian Tribes (153 kb pdf)
  • Feb. 28 - Loveland Area Customers Association (122 kb pdf)
  • March 7 - Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District (712 kb pdf)
  • March 13 - Salt River Project (364 kb pdf)
  • March 13 - Basin Electric Power Cooperative (77 kb pdf)
  • March 14 - Central Montana Electric Power Cooperative (945 kb pdf)
  • March 14 - Colorado River Energy Distributors Association (31 kb pdf)
  • March 14 - Mid-West Electric Consumers Association (101 kb pdf)
  • March 14 - Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association (1.4 MB pdf)
  • March 15 - Arizona Municipal Power Users' Association (133 kb pdf)
  • March 17 - Big Flat Electric Co-op (1.2 MB pdf)
• Video of Feb. 12 DSW customer meeting (172 MB .wmv)
• Feb. 12 and 14 meeting presentation, Preliminary Operations Consolidation Proposal (1,736 kb pdf)
• Meeting agenda - Feb. 12 and 14 customer meetings (32 kb pdf)