Since the Council identified energy efficiency in its regional energy plan as the key resource to meet most of our future load growth, where will this efficiency come from?We heard about some promising areas at the Council's August meeting from
The Council's Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Program depends on local watershed plans--subbasin plans--to inform its recommendations about what projects to fund. These plans connect all the various fish and wildlife actions already underway, identify problems that need attention, and
Donald "Bud" Hover of Winthrop, Washington, is an Okanogan County commissioner and hay farmer who also chairs the Washington state Salmon Recovery Funding Board. Here's a preview of our interview with him for the summer Council Quarterly where he describes
[reformatted from NW Energy Coalition July 18, 2011 emailed press release]
The Council unanimously elected Joan Dukes, an Oregon member of the Council, vice chair this week for the remainder of 2011. Dukes replaces Dick Wallace, a Washington member, in the position. Wallace resigned from the Council in June.
The Council is pleased that new federal energy-efficiency standards for air conditioners and furnaces, issued in June, account for regional differences in energy use. It’s the first time standards for those appliances have taken a regional approach since they first
A decade-long research study in which a variety of sea animals were tagged and tracked beneath the Pacific ocean has unveiled fresh insight into a world that has remained largely hidden and unknown.The Washington Post's story and The New York
According to NOAA's Northwest River Forecast Center's official June forecast, the April to August runoff at the Dalles Dam is now 126 MAF, or 135 percent of the 30-year (1971-2001) average. That's a lot of water set to flow through
see decision memo and project list
Most of us have heard of the smart grid and have some sort of hazy understanding of it as moving the power grid into the digital age. Technologies that automatically communicate usage data to power providers make it possible to
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