The Invasion Strengthens
- September 13, 2016
- John Harrison
Researchers have documented an increase in juvenile northern pike in Lake Roosevelt. This is not good news.
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Do Customers of Rural Utilities Have Higher Electricity Bills?
- August 31, 2016
- Ben Kujala
The Northwest has over 100 different utilities, many of them in small, rural communities. How do their electricity bills compare with urban utility customers?
Montana Wind Generates More Power When The Region Needs It, But Can We Get It?
- August 17, 2016
- John Ollis
Of the nearly 8,700 megawatts of wind generation in the region, under 700 megawatts are in Montana and just over 5,700 megawatts of wind power is sited in the Columbia Gorge. If Montana’s wind resource is so promising, why isn’t there more?
Renewables in a Shifting Energy Landscape
- August 15, 2016
- Ben Kujala
One of the challenges with wind and solar generation is that the amount of generation you get in any hour depends on the weather. But there are promising solutions that could help meet that challenge.
Cold-water Species In A Warming Climate
- August 12, 2016
- John Harrison
A warming climate, habitat degradation, and predation by an introduced species threaten native bull trout in Montana, but a joint effort involving Montana, the Salish and Kootenai Tribes, and an an international agreement with British Columbia aims to protect and restore the cold-water species.
Building Demand for Energy Efficient Products
- August 11, 2016
- Carol Winkel
Carrie Cobb, market research lead at Bonneville Power Administration, talks about lighting technology and where it's headed
Retiring Northwest Coal Plants and Keeping the Lights On
- August 11, 2016
- Carol Winkel
The Northwest should have an adequate supply through 2020, although retiring four coal plants by 2022 means the region will have to acquire nearly 1,400 megawatts of new capacity.
Cold Water Refuge
- August 11, 2016
- John Harrison
Like people seeking shade outside on a hot day, salmon and steelhead look for pockets of cold water as they migrate home from the ocean to spawn, a search that will become increasingly important, and perhaps more difficult, as the climate warms.
Do Customers of Northwest Investor-Owned Utilities have Higher Electricity Bills?
- August 05, 2016
- Ben Kujala
The Northwest has over 100 different utilities, many of them small publicly owned utilities. Investor-owned utilities are companies owned by investors that earn a profit for providing electricity to their customers. So as a customer of an investor-owned utility in
Building on a Legacy Resource
- August 05, 2016
- Gillian Charles
It may be America’s “forgotten” resource, but here in the Pacific Northwest, hydropower is very much remembered and valued.
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