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With the public comment period for the draft Seventh Power Plan closing on December 18, the Council's power committee approved staff recommendations to update a few modeling assumptions and run three additional scenarios.

This week the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) honored winners of its 2015 Leadership in Energy Efficiency Awards, including the Council’s Director of Power Planning Tom Eckman.

Elliot Mainzer, administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration, the region’s largest electricity wholesaler and the agency that directs millions of dollars annually to improve energy efficiency in the Northwest and boost fish and wildlife survival in the Columbia River Basin,

California, with one of the most ambitious renewable programs in the country, increased its renewable portfolio standard in September from 33 percent to 50 percent by the end of 2030. The legislation to increase the state's RPS also made it

The campaign to halt the proliferation of Northern pike in Lake Roosevelt, the reservoir behind Grand Coulee Dam, is intensifying, state and tribal fish biologists reported to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council in November.

As the climate warms and polar ice continues to melt, sea levels will rise and estuary shorelines, including those along the lower Columbia River, will be inundated. Whether that’s a little or a lot is a matter of speculation, of

While white sturgeon populations in the Columbia River downstream of Bonneville Dam are stable, they're also targeted by the growing sea lion population and their spawning can be affected by dam operations upstream.

Jennifer Light, the Council’s Regional Technical Forum manager, has been elected chair of the 26-member energy efficiency advisory committee.