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For more than a generation, the Pacific Northwest has been a leader in acquiring energy efficiency. Since 1978, the region has reduced electricity demand by more than 5,000 average megawatts, about half of the region’s load growth. That’s enough

We caught up with Bob Jenks, executive director of the CUB Policy Center, to talk about the growing need for flexibility in the region's power system. CUB's recent policy conference explored the question of how to make renewable energy, with

Robert Kahn has served as executive director for the Northwest & Intermountain Power Producers Coalition since its formation in 2002. He began his career working for the late architect and philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller, and has worked with independent power

The Yakama Nation is working to restore extirpated runs of summer Chinook, coho, and sockeye salmon to the Yakima River and experiencing what the tribe’s senior fisheries research scientist, Dave Fast, calls “pretty good success.”

In a recently released analysis, the Bonneville Power Administration set out to answer a simple question: How much would the agency have paid on the spot power market for the same amount of energy it saved from FY 2001 through