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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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News

  1. Emerging Trends from Scenario Analysis Modeling

    Feb 18, 2021 Carol Winkel
    Reducing carbon will transform the power system

  2. Wholesale Electricity Prices Come Into Focus

    Dec 4, 2020 Carol Winkel
    Throughout the West, retiring coal plants and a plethora of clean energy policies in states, municipalities, and utilities have changed how electricity markets function, adding even more uncertainty to an already challenging enterprise: forecasting the future.

  3. Electricity Price Forecast Trends: Lots of Renewables as Clean Energy Policies Drive Resource Development

    Aug 25, 2020 Carol Winkel
    At the Council’s August power committee meeting, John Ollis presented the preliminary findings of the Council’s wholesale electricity price forecast. The forecast is used in developing the Council’s resource strategy for its regional power plan.

  4. Gauging the Impact of Upstream Methane Leaks

    Jun 22, 2020 Carol Winkel
    At its June Council meeting, Principal Analyst Steven Simmons presented the staff’s recommendation for emission inputs from natural gas and coal production, which will be used in developing the Council’s 2021 Power Plan.

  5. In the Mix: Testing Small Modular Reactors as a Future Energy Source

    Jun 22, 2020 Carol Winkel
    At the June power committee meeting, Senior Policy Analyst Gillian Charles reviewed the primary generating resource reference plants developed for inclusion in the draft 2021 Power Plan and presented the proposed emerging technology reference plant that will be included as a resource option in the plan’s scenario analysis.

  6. Bonneville Power Administration’s Potential for Achieving Energy Efficiency and Demand Response

    Jun 22, 2020 Carol Winkel
    At the June power committee meeting, staff presented an update on the supply curves for energy efficiency and demand response they will use to help analyze the resources available to the BPA in meeting its future obligations.

  7. Assessing Future Energy Efficiency

    May 21, 2020 Carol Winkel
    At its May meeting, power division staff presented an assessment of the region’s energy efficiency potential that will be used in the 2021 Power Plan’s resource optimization and scenario analysis.

  8. Accounting for Climate Change in the 2021 Power Plan

    Apr 27, 2020 Carol Winkel
    Climate change affects many aspects of the Council’s analysis for its upcoming regional power plan. At its April meeting, staff reviewed how warming weather will be addressed in analyzing future resource development and energy efficiency.

  9. 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.

  10. Potential for Strong Energy Efficiency Savings

    Mar 18, 2020 Carol Winkel
    Cost-effective energy efficiency is the priority resource in the Council's regional power plan, and it's now the region's second largest resource after hydropower.

  11. Lower Load Growth is Forecast Over the Next 30 Years

    Feb 24, 2020 Carol Winkel
    Demand for electricity in the Northwest is expected to remain low over the next 20-30 years, thanks in part to the growing use of on-site solar generation at homes and businesses.

  12. Assessing Geothermal Energy Potential

    Feb 20, 2020 Carol Winkel
    The Pacific Northwest is literally a hotbed of geothermal activity. Part of the so-called Ring of Fire, an area of volcanoes and seismic activity, with hot spots deep within the Earth's mantle, the region is a prime location for geothermal energy.

  13. Climate Change in the 2021 Power Plan

    Jun 13, 2019 Carol Winkel
    How to incorporate climate change impacts in the Northwest power plan is a big question. The Council hosted a workshop on modeling climate change and presented its proposed approach.

  14. Connecting Montana's Wind Generation to the Grid

    Jul 16, 2018 Carol Winkel
    Bringing Montana's wind power to Northwest utilities looks promising; tapping into the existing capacity of the grid will help.

  15. 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

  16. Wind Power, Then and Now

    Apr 18, 2011 Carol Winkel
    We recently updated a very useful brochure (online interactive version) on the Pacific Northwest's power supply, and it really brought home just how fast wind power has grown in

  17. 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

  18. Update: Columbia Grid Wind Integration Study

    Jan 15, 2011 Carol Winkel
    In an earlier post on the Columbia Grid's study on wind integration we included a link that doesn't connect to the study--just to information on the study team. Apparently, the

  19. For Now, Local Wind Development Trumps Remote Wind

    Oct 26, 2010 Carol Winkel
    Earlier this month, the Columbia Grid Wind Integration Study Team released its report on the economics of developing wind resources close to load centers compared to developing

  20. How Other Countries Integrate Wind and Solar Power

    Aug 18, 2010 Carol Winkel
    In July, several experts in the operation of the power systems of Denmark, Germany, and Spain gave presentations on how their countries handle integrating large amounts of wind

  21. NW, California Work on Wind Energy Issues

    Jun 14, 2010 Carol Winkel
    We've been talking about the challenges that California's renewable energy goals pose for the Northwest, and last week the region's utility community had an opportunity to meet

  22. Making Wind Work

    Jun 7, 2010 Carol Winkel
    In an earlier post, we talked about how California's quest for renewable energy has meant that a growing portion of the wind energy developed in the Northwest is going to our ne

  23. And the Wind Came Up

    Apr 6, 2010 Carol Winkel
    When we say wind is an "intermittent" resource, we mean it. This Bonneville Power Administration graph shows the output of wind generation for a seven-day period and how quickly

  24. California's Quest for Renewable Energy and What It Could Mean for the Northwest

    Mar 24, 2010 Carol Winkel
    Three Pacific Northwest states have adopted renewable portfolio standards, but it may be that our neighbor to the south, California, will end up having the biggest  impact on the region. California's
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