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Western Area Power Administration has begun a strategic planning process to define Westernwide priorities that ensure Western's continued success well into the future. This is particularly important, at this time, given the unprecedented number of new requests and mandates we are receiving as an agency. Ultimately, an action plan will be developed to focus Western on priorities that reflect the current demands and opportunities as well as those that are on the horizon. Where is Western at in the planning process? Western is now identifying specific strategies and actions geared toward positioning Western to successfully meet increasing core business requirements and to take advantage of opportunities to help meet the energy needs of the West. We plan to continue working on an action plan over this next year.
How will customers be involved in the process? At an early point and well before final decisions are made, customers will be asked for input on any ideas that could evolve into major initiatives. To provide the most recent information on strategic planning and to get early customer input, customer meetings were held Feb. 12 and 14 in Phoenix and Loveland. Western is currently evaluating comments and questions from customers received since the February customer meetings.
Follow-up customer meeting held April 24 Western presented its Operations Consolidation proposal at a meeting with customers on April 24. The meeting was a follow-up to the February 2008 customer meetings held on our strategic planning process.
What issues are being considered?
Those broad issues have been refined through study and deliberation into strategies for further consideration and evaluation:
Strategy 1 - Maintain and strengthen Western's ability to participate in large-scale transmission projects to improve Western's transmission infrastructure, maintain or enhance system reliability, support customer projects, and/or increase overall effectiveness of the transmission system.
Strategy 2 - Explore operations consolidation as a way to become more efficient and to minimize future costs due to increasing work requirements associated with FERC's open access transmission and electric reliability standard requirements.
Strategy 3 - Gain efficiencies and strengthen merchant services.
Strategy 4 - Meet the increasing demands on maintenance from transmission growth and compliance requirements.
Strategy 5 - Continue to support development of renewabgle resources and increase visibility of Western's activities in the renewable resources arena.
Strategy 6 - Increase the visibility of Western's partnerships with Native American tribes.
Strategy 7 - Strengthen Western's organizational capabilities and design the organization to meet growing demands.
Strategy 8 - Strengthen Western's financial ability to meet commitments and changing requirements.
Strategy 9 - Create an internal and external communications strategy for every aspect of the strategic plan.
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