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    The Council works to protect and enhance fish and wildlife in the Columbia River Basin. Its Fish & Wildlife Program guides project funding by the Bonneville Power Administration.

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    The Council develops a plan, updated every five years, to ensure the region’s power supply and acquire cost-effective energy efficiency.

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    THE NORTHWEST POWER PLAN

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  1. Demand Response Potential

    Mar 19, 2020 Carol Winkel
    Demand response is the voluntary and temporary reduction in consumers' electricity use when the power system is stressed, and it's one of the ways the region can meet its peak electricity loads.

  2. Climate Change Impacts on Electricity Loads and Hydropower Generation

    Jan 7, 2019 Carol Winkel
    A recently published paper by Council analysts explores how climate-driven variations in both energy demand and water availability affect the power system and risk of power shortfalls in the Pacific Northwest.

  3. Demand Response Advisory Committee Holds First Meeting

    Dec 19, 2016 Carol Winkel
    Demand response resources are the least-cost solution for providing new peaking capacity and could save the region billions of dollars

  4. Demand Response Symposium Plans to Build on Its Success

    Oct 4, 2016 Carol Winkel
    The Northwest's demand response symposium was the first step toward meeting the Council's goal of developing at least 600 megawatts of DR. But it's just the beginning.

  5. Smart Grid NW Hosts Symposium on Demand Response

    Sep 20, 2016 Carol Winkel
    Demand response, the voluntary and temporary reduction in consumers’ use of electricity when the power system is stressed, is the least-cost solution for new peaking capacity. An upcoming symposium is bringing people together to make this solution a reality.

  6. Mapping EPA's Proposed Emission Rate Targets By State

    Jun 5, 2014 Carol Winkel
    The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions has a nice interactive map of the proposed state emission rate targets.  Also, an interesting story on why the biggest oil and gas i

  7. Habitat Tours Focus on Results

    May 31, 2013 Carol Winkel
    Meacham Creek in the Umatilla River Basin, northeast Oregon  This spring, Council staff and members of its Independent Scientific Review Panel toured a number fish and wildli

  8. Independent Scientists Complete Review of Fish and Wildlife Proposals

    Apr 6, 2012 Carol Winkel
    The Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s panel of independent scientists recently completed a review of 71 projects to implement the Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program

  9. Revisiting the Columbia River Treaty

    Feb 24, 2011 Carol Winkel
    In the upcoming Council Quarterly, we interview Stephen R. Oliver, vice president of generation asset management for the Bonneville Power Administration and the co-coordinator of the U.S. Entity for

  10. Protected Areas: Preserving the Best Remaining Habitat

    Jul 9, 2010 Carol Winkel
    Several weeks ago, a couple of thought-provoking stories came out: Paul Greenberg's Tuna's End in the New York Times and Adam Frank's Inventing the Fish: Science and the Collapse of Ecologies on NPR.
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