Bonneville Power Administration News

The Northwest's geology holds the potential to offer a cavernous storage bank for excess energy on the regional power grid, according to a broad study released this week.

The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Bonneville Power Administration have identified two locations in eastern Washington state that could store enough Northwest wind energy to power... RICHLAND, Wash.

As the region looks for more effective ways to integrate wind and other renewable energy sources, the Bonneville Power Administration and its customers have agreed to settle the portion of BPA's rate case that defines charges for balancing services, or generation inputs, that maintain a constant balance of the energy produced and energy consumed.

Efficiency Exchange NW combines two previous conferences - Efficiency Connections NW and BPA's Energy Efficiency Utility Summit - to better serve the region's utilities with a more comprehensive, focused conference.

Two houses were damaged outside of Port Angeles after a man stole a piece of heavy machinery, the Peninsula Daily News reported .

About 14,000 Flathead Electric Cooperative members were in the dark this morning after lightning struck a Bonneville Power Administration transmission line between Kalispell and Hot Springs around 6:30 a.m. The outage was centered around the Kalispell, Bigfork, Lakeside and Somers area and spokesperson Wendy Ostrom-Price said it could be awhile ... (more)

But there is uncertainty about what changes to the treaty or its termination would mean for the Mid-Columbia in other areas, ranging from flood control to commercial navigation.

This year's Mission Valley Power's customer appreciation dinner marked MVP's 25 year existence and Bonneville Power's 75 year existence.

Representatives from Glencore told the Flathead County Commission this week they are still trying to do everything they can to restart the Columbia Falls Aluminum Company plant, which has been shuttered for nearly four years.

The Bonneville Power Association has produced a photo-filled book on its history since 1980 and is giving it away on its website.

Washington and Oregon chapters of Physicians for Social Responsibility have commissioned an economic study of the possibility of shutting down the nuclear power plant near Richland.