A wave of coal-fired power plants slated for retirement in the next decade has utilities looking for what Chelan County PUD is selling: carbon-free, dispatchable hydropower. Read More
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Joel Cook took over as BPA's chief operating officer and Suzanne Cooper replaced Cook as senior VP of Power Services, effective April 25, the federal power marketing agency announced April 21. Read More
Pacific Gas & Electric is looking for potential buyers for its Hamilton Branch hydropower facilities, the company said in an April 1 news release. Read More
The U.S. Department of Energy has recruited BPA CFO Michelle Manary to serve a two-year stint as the deputy assistant secretary for the Energy Resilience Division, where she'll help lead DOE's focus on national transmission infrastructure policy issues in support of national clean energy obj… Read More
After three months of near-silence from Democratic members of the Northwest congressional delegation, Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) got his first quasi-endorsement for the $33.5 billion proposal to end the Columbia Basin salmon wars from Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) on May 4. Read More
It's mid-May, and already talk of another water year along the West Coast like 2015 or 2001 is in the air. Read More
Avista and Puget Sound Energy each signed "slice" contracts with Chelan County PUD for 5 percent shares of the PUD's Rock Island and Rocky Reach hydropower projects. Read More
The State of Washington notified U.S. District Judge Michael Simon on April 19 that it does not intend to participate as an intervenor-defendant in a long-running lawsuit over Columbia River System Operations, and asked instead to become an unaligned amicus curiae, or friend of the court. Read More
With major funding decisions hanging on the outcome, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should expedite its study on the impacts of removing power generation from federal obligations at three of the Willamette Valley Project's 13 dams, BPA and the Public Power Council wrote in comments to the … Read More
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has continued to delay a decision on proposals to use Lake Roosevelt for pumped storage, citing the "complexity and location of the project" as reasons. Read More
After revising its study plan for relicensing the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project [P-553] and touting the changes at a press conference in April, Seattle City Light has gotten a lukewarm reception in formal comments filed with FERC May 5-6 by tribes, government agencies and nonprofit orga… Read More