Governors' Meetings
November 20-21
Scottsdale, Arizona
2025 Winter Meeting
The 2025 Winter Meeting will feature Western Governors and their distinguished guests in public conversations about the most significant issues facing the region.
June 30 - July 2
Deer Valley, Utah
2026 Annual Meeting
The 2026 Annual Meeting will take place at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah.
Chair Initiative Events
09/22/25
Governor Cox launches his WGA Chair initiative at INL with Governor Little
The first workshop of Utah Governor Spencer Cox's WGA Chair initiative, Energy Superabundance: Unlocking Prosperity in the West, was held at the Idaho National Laboratory.
This workshop, hosted by Idaho Governor Brad Little, explored topics related to nuclear energy. Policymakers and experts from around the West, including Governor Cox, participated in discussions examining regulatory and permitting challenges for nuclear energy projects, investment needs and policy frameworks, supply chain challenges, and nuclear fuel cycle constraints.
Watch here10/28/25
Governor Polis hosts Energy Superabundance initiative workshop on energy transmission
The second workshop of Utah Governor Spencer Cox’s WGA Chair initiative, Energy Superabundance: Unlocking Prosperity in the West, explored practical ways to expand and improve the grid while avoiding lengthy timelines and limiting rate increases.
“We want a lower cost grid, we want a more resilient and reliable grid, and transmission is absolutely critical to achieve that,” Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who hosted the workshop in downtown Denver, Colorado, said in his opening remarks. “My fellow Governors and I are committed to working together to find practical and bipartisan solutions that can improve the grid and expand transmission infrastructure to truly achieve energy superabundance.” .
Watch here
Chair Initiatives
Each year, the Chair of the Western Governors’ Association (WGA) chooses an initiative on which to focus the Association’s convening power and policy prowess. The findings of the WGA Chair initiative are memorialized in an initiative report that is released at WGA’s Annual Meeting.
Annual Policy Forum
Annual Policy Forum
The Annual Policy Forum is focused on addressing capacity challenges to equip western communities to undertake locally led community and economic development efforts.