Next Monday, the Obama administration is scheduled to announce proposed new rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants under the Clean Air Act. The new rules are widely anticipated as a cornerstone of the president's climate change strategy
The Council provided comments on the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance's draft 2015-2019 strategic and business plans this month. NEEA's strategic plan identifies two major goals: filling the energy efficiency pipeline with new opportunities and creating market conditions to accelerate and
The conference, scheduled October 21-23 in Spokane, includes themes of:
Elliot Mainzer, Bonneville Power Administration's newly sworn in administrator, made his first appearance at a Council meeting in March. Mainzer described his strategic prioriities for the agency, including meeting the energy efficiency targets in the Council's Sixth Power Plan.
On Friday, Council members voted unanimously to select Navigant Consulting to redevelop a key power planning tool, called the regional portfolio model, that it will use to develop its Seventh Power Plan.
Arne Olson, partner at Energy+Environmental Economics, reported on the work his firm completed on the implications of moving to a 50 percent renewable portfolio standard in California. The E3 study, which has received broad attention, was commissioned by the state's
Earlier in the year, the Council looked at how loads and generating resources had changed in the Northwest over the years. At its March meeting, staff put it all together and reported on the net changes in loads and resources
Several weeks ago, the Council sent a letter to BPA expressing concern that its proposed funding for energy efficiency would be insufficient to meet the targets in the Council's plan. In following BPA's capital investment review process, the Council noticed
The Bonneville Power Administration recently kicked-off two processes that will define its spending amounts going into its next two-year rate case: the integrated program review and capital investment review. In these two processes, it's important that BPA commit adequate financial
At the Council's power committee meeting in January, staff reported on trends in peak and energy loads in the region since 1995 to 2012. As a follow-up to that information, staff gave a presentation in February, reporting that within the
