Randy Hardy, former BPA administrator, was presented with the inaugural Robert Kahn Lifetime Achievement Award by the Northwest and Intermountain Power Producers Coalition, at the group's annual meeting Sept. 9. Read More
Top Stories
- BPA Gets Unanimous Endorsement to Take Next Step in Studying EIM
- PacifiCorp IRP Modeling Still Favors Renewables, Gas, DSM, Reduced Coal
- New Map Confirms Columbia River Tidal Wetlands Have Diminished
- Renewables Bounty Lowers CAISO Second-Quarter Costs 11 Percent
- SPP's Western Energy Imbalance Service Market Scores Multi-State Utilities
Washington state regulators have suspended certification of the proposed 25 MW Columbia Solar Project for failure to pay more than $264,000 in permitting and administrative fees owed to the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council and the Washington UTC. Read More
Four consulting firms have been hired by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s office to gather views on whether removing the lower Snake River dams could recover Chinook populations vital to southern resident killer whales, and to put together a draft report by December. Read More
Work is almost finished on Clark Public Utilities’ newest substation, which together with a new transmission line is being built to serve a new casino and anticipated commercial and residential growth along Interstate 5. Read More
Gov. Brad Little appointed one new member and reappointed another to the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. Bradley Melton, a financial advisor and lifelong outdoorsman from Lewiston, will replace Dan Blanco as the representative of the Clearwater region of Idaho. Derick Atterbury, an irrigatio… Read More
NewsData is excited to announce a new digital era for our company and its publications, featuring an engaging new website and delivery of online newsletters. This digital service is designed to benefit subscribers and enable us to build on our foundation as a trusted source of regional energ… Read More
Please join us for an Oct. 22 conference in Seattle titled "Electrification and Natural Gas Decarbonization: Opportunities and Challenges for the Northwest Utility Industry." Read More
With the departure of warmer-than-normal temperatures across the West, regional energy prices deflated over the trading week. Read More
Upcoming Events
Electrification and Natural Gas Decarbonization: Opportunities and Challenges for the Pacific Northwest Electric Utility Industry Read more
The Friday, Nov. 8, event in downtown Portland is designed to educate energy and utility policy analysts, attorneys, advocates, regulators, utility staff and others working in and around the energy industry. Read more
PacifiCorp continues to see dramatic savings from early retirement of some of its coal-fired power plant fleet and switching to renewables and natural gas, in modeling for its 2019 integrated resource plan. Read More
Higher output from hydroelectric, wind and solar resources pushed down the cost of serving wholesale load in the California ISO area by 11 percent in the second quarter, compared with the second quarter of last year, CAISO's Department of Market Monitoring said. Read More
The Southwest Power Pool on Sept. 9 announced commitments by three regional utilities to join its Western Energy Imbalance Service Market as charter participants. Read More
The first complete map of tidal wetlands that once made up vast portions of the Pacific coast’s estuaries shows 85 percent of the areas from California to Washington have been lost to development and farmland, and also confirmed the Columbia River’s tidal wetlands are only a quarter of the s… Read More
BPA appears to be on the verge of taking the next step in potentially joining the Western EIM operated by the California ISO. Read More
The Trump administration on Sept. 12 finalized repeal of the 2015 “Waters of the U.S.” rule, reverting to previous regulations in a move likely to be challenged in court. Meanwhile, the House passed legislation barring expansion of offshore oil and gas leasing in Pacific and Atlantic water… Read More