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Portland General Electric has modified its 2019 integrated resource plan, potentially opening the door for the development of a pumped storage project in the region.
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Douglas County PUD Commissioner Ron Skagen has been appointed to a three-year term on the American Public Power Association's Policy Makers Council. The council helps promote federal legislation important to public power utilities and oppose harmful legislation. Council members are either ap… Read More
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Fourth Annual Northwest Wholesale Power Markets Conference: Transformation to Decarbonization, Wednesday, May 27, 2020, Seattle, WA. More Details to Come ... Read More
Western energy prices continued to plummet, depressed by a lack of cold weather across most of the continental United States. Read More
Puget Sound Energy plans to reach net-zero methane emissions across its 26,000-mile natural gas distribution system by 2022, and is looking to increase its use of renewable natural gas, in an effort to decarbonize its system. Read More
Portland General Electric has modified its 2019 integrated resource plan, potentially opening the door for the development of a pumped storage project in the region. Read More
Several public utilities in the Northwest have overhauled their rates in response to fundamental market changes and rising power costs. Read More
QF developers pairing energy storage with generation scored a substantial victory when a federal judge ruled in a case involving the Idaho PUC that state regulators cannot classify such QFs by their generation resource. Instead, they must be treated as energy storage QFs. Read More
Ocean temperatures were the warmest in recorded history in 2019, according to a study published in February's Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. Read More
In a unanimous vote on Jan. 23, seven members of the Orcas Power & Light Co-op board rescinded a resolution the board adopted in September opposing removal of the four lower Snake River dams while supporting "effective" actions to restore salmon runs and save endangered southern resident orcas. Read More
The prime sponsor of last year's landmark Clean Energy Transformation Act, Washington Sen. Reuven Carlyle (D-Seattle), has joined with two members of the Republican caucus to tinker with CETA's grid reliability provisions, citing concerns that resource inadequacy might come sooner than expected. Read More
The Trump administration on Jan. 23 finalized a regulation replacing the 2015 "Waters of the U.S." rule, which the administration repealed last year. Meanwhile, Bernard McNamee said he won't seek reappointment to FERC when his term expires June 30, but might stay on to preserve FERC's quorum… Read More