The conventional wisdom of the past few years has been that the region's power system is becoming capacity constrained in part because of growing peak loads. But does the data support this perception?
Last month's cold weather, which put water pipes to the test, was also an opportunity to see how well the region's power system fared during an extended period of extreme temperatures.
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
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
