Leadership of the Western EIM on Sept. 8 approved a new category of market participant known as a "sub-entity," a measure deemed necessary to implement Public Service Company of Colorado's entry into the imbalance market. Read More
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A Montana District Court judge rejected NorthWestern Energy's motion to dismiss a lawsuit to block preapproval by the Montana PSC to build a 175 MW natural gas-fired plant. Read More
Puget Sound Energy and parent company Puget Energy have named Jean-Paul Marmoreo to their boards. He represents the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, which owns 23.9 percent of the utility. OMERS was previously represented by Kenton Bradbury, who resigned from the companies' boa… Read More
The Pacific Northwest experienced an extreme heat dome in late June and early July, which, among other consequences, tested the region's electric system. For the most part, regional utilities kept the power flowing to customers through the extreme warmth, despite some on-the-edge conditions.… Read More
Energy prices throughout the West skyrocketed as temperatures climbed and supply was constrained. Read More
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Frank Wolak, director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University, joined Paul Dockery of Clatskanie PUD for the third installation of our "Electric Market Enthusiasm" series. The conversation uses his work on "Long-Term Resource Adequacy in Wholesale Electricity Markets with Significant Intermittent Renewables" and the Energy Market Game to discuss export curtailment, the reliability externality and electric market design elements. Read more
Homeowners continued shifting to LEDs across the Northwest in 2020, according to the latest residential lighting market analysis by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, which found that the highly efficient bulbs made up 67 percent of sales last year, up from 63 percent in 2019 and from… Read More
The U.S. Department of Energy granted a request by California's grid operator to issue an emergency order by Sept. 10 to preserve grid reliability and allow more than 200 MW of additional capacity onto the grid for 60 days. The request came during a week when calls to conserve electricity we… Read More
The Idaho PUC on Sept. 1 approved an all-party settlement in Avista's two-year electric [AVU-E-21-01] and natural gas [AVU-G-21-01] general rate cases. Read More
As more than 1,000 steelhead continue to cross Bonneville Dam daily, the U.S. v. Oregon Technical Advisory Committee—which predicts Columbia Basin salmon runs—made another upward adjustment in its forecast for this year's A-index returns on Sept. 7. Read More
A deep drawdown at the Willamette Valley Project's Cougar Reservoir and new spill operations at Foster Dam are scheduled to commence this fall after U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez on Sept. 1 issued a final order in Northwest Environmental Defense Center et al. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engi… Read More
EPA is proposing to add Bradford Island, located within the Bonneville Dam complex, to its National Priorities List for clean up of toxic chemicals. Also known as Superfund sites, the list includes the nation's most serious contamination problems, making them eligible to receive federal fund… Read More
Seattle City Light officials braced for a sickout among crews of its High Voltage Line Group Sept. 7 protesting the city's impending COVID-19 vaccine requirement for municipal employees, but it never came to be. Read More
Congressional committees worked the week of Sept. 7 to flesh out a $3.5 trillion budget bill to advance the Biden administration's climate, health and education priorities. Meanwhile, the White House announced President Joe Biden's plan to nominate D.C. Public Service Commission Chairman Wil… Read More