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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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    • May 2019 Thu 02
      10:00 am—12:00 pm Hatchery Workgroup
    • May 2019 Mon 06
      3:00 pm—5:00 pm Fish and Wildlife Committee Meeting
    • May 2019 Tue Wed 07 - 08
      Council Meeting
    • May 2019 Tue 14
      9:00 am—12:00 pm Generating Resources Advisory Comm
    • May 2019 Thu 16
      9:30 am—11:30 am Demand Forecast Adv. Committee Webinar: Climate Change Discussion
    • May 2019 Wed 22
      9:30 am—3:00 pm Fish and Wildlife Committee Meeting
    • May 2019 Wed 29
      9:30 am—12:00 pm Fish and Wildlife Committee Meeting
    • May 2019 Fri 31
      9:30 am—2:30 pm RTF Policy Advisory Committee
    • Jun 2019 Mon 03
      10:00 am—3:00 pm Natural Gas Advisory Committee
    • Jun 2019 Tue 04
      9:30 am—3:45 pm Demand Response Advisory Committee
    • Jun 2019 Wed 05
      9:00 am—3:00 pm Pacific NW Demand Response Project Meeting
    • Jun 2019 Tue Wed 11 - 12
      Council Meeting
    • Jun 2019 Tue 18
      9:00 am—11:00 am Hatchery Workgroup
    • Jun 2019 Mon 24
      9:00 am—12:00 pm Council Work Session for Fish and Wildlife Program Amendments
    • Jun 2019 Thu 27
      10:30 am—12:00 pm Asset Management Subcommittee
    • Jul 2019 Tue Wed 16 - 17
      Council Meeting
    • Jul 2019 Thu 25
      9:30 am—3:30 pm Conservation Resources Adv. Committee - 2021 Power Plan
    • Aug 2019 Mon 12
      1:00 pm—5:00 pm Regional Coordination Forum
    • Aug 2019 Tue Wed 13 - 14
      Council Meeting
    • Aug 2019 Wed 21
      9:30 am—3:45 pm Demand Response Advisory Committee
    • Sep 2019 Wed 11
      9:00 am—3:00 pm RTF Policy Advisory Committee Meeting
    • Sep 2019 Tue Wed 17 - 18
      Council Meeting
    • Oct 2019 Tue Wed 15 - 16
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    • Oct 2019 Thu 24
      9:30 am—3:30 pm Conservation Resources Advisory Committee
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  1. Agreement Renews Agencies' Collaboration on International Columbia River Issues

    Mar 21, 2011 John Harrison
    (Columbia Basin) – Columbia Basin Trust (CBT), and the Northwest Power and Conservation Council (the Council), a federally chartered compact of the Northwestern states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and

  2. 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

  3. Food Webs as Fuel for the Ecosystem

    Feb 10, 2011 Carol Winkel
    The idea that all parts of life are interconnected is an ancient motif found in mythology, religion, art, and science. It’s also a concept central to a recent report on the importance of food webs t

  4. Council adopts fish and wildlife protection plan for Montana’s Blackfoot River

    Feb 9, 2011 John Harrison
    The Council added a fish and wildlife protection plan for the Blackfoot River in western Montana to its Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program this week, paving the way for potential funding t

  5. The Rebound Effect: Is It Real?

    Feb 1, 2011 Carol Winkel
    The rebound effect refers to the fact that as energy efficiency increases, products that consume energy become less expensive to operate, which in turn causes even more energy to be used. This is a to

  6. An Update on Didymo

    Jan 27, 2011 Carol Winkel
    Following up on an earlier post, Brian Marotz, of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has been working with Dr. Jack Stanford at the University of Montana Biological Station and other didymo experts to

  7. Evaluating Compact Florescent Light Bulb Savings

    Jan 21, 2011 Carol Winkel
    A recent story in Greenwire (subscription required) highlighted a debate over the benefits of subsidizing compact florescent bulbs. When the California Public Utilities Commission released its evaluat

  8. Didymo: A New Kind of Invader

    Jan 18, 2011 Carol Winkel
    At the Council meeting last week in Missoula, Brian Marotz of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks described a recent phenomenon below Libby and Hungry Horse dams: the proliferation of a form of invasiv

  9. 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 paper hasn't been final

  10. Montana and Washington members will lead Council in 2011

    Jan 12, 2011 John Harrison
    MISSOULA, Montana – Members of the Council today re-elected Bruce Measure, a Montana member, chair of the Council for 2011, and Dick Wallace, a Washington member, vice chair. It is the second consec

  11. Generating More Power Than We Can Use

    Jan 5, 2011 Carol Winkel
    One of the trends to come out of all the wind power that's been developed in the Pacific Northwest the last several years is an increasing surplus of generating capability. Or, to put it another way,

  12. Pacific Power President Pat Reiten on Energy Challenges

    Dec 6, 2010 Carol Winkel
    The Council interviewed Pat Reiten, president of Pacific Power at PacifiCorp for the upcoming Council Quarterly. Here are some highlights:Q: PacifiCorp has worked to include renewable energy into its

  13. Interest grows in future dam operations as Columbia River Treaty deadline approaches

    Nov 10, 2010 John Harrison
    Electric utilities, academics, tribes, and government agencies in the United States and Canada are beginning to think about the future of the Columbia River Treaty, the 1964 agreement between the two

  14. 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 wind sites in Montana a

  15. Ken Dragoon, renewable energy expert, joins Council’s Power Division

    Oct 21, 2010 John Harrison
    Ken Dragoon will be joining the Council’s Power Planning Division as senior resource analyst in November. He is filling the position held by Jeff King, who is retiring at the end of the year. "Ken b

  16. A Good Year for Returning Salmon

    Sep 30, 2010 Carol Winkel
    This year has been a positive one for salmon, especially sockeye salmon. By mid-August, the run of sockeye up the Columbia River was the highest since Bonneville Dam was completed in 1938 and annual c

  17. Small, Rural Utilities Give Their Energy Perspective

    Sep 23, 2010 Carol Winkel
    Here's a preview of an interview with Bill Drummond of Western Montana Electric Generating and Transmission Cooperative, which will be in the upcoming Council Quarterly.Q: As a four-state entity, th

  18. Idaho Senator James Risch on Energy in the Northwest

    Sep 2, 2010 Carol Winkel
    In 2009 we interviewed Idaho Senator James Risch for the Council Quarterly on a number of topics, including the state of the region's energy portfolio.Q: The Northwest's long history of generating ele

  19. Using Water Heaters to Store Energy, Integrate Wind Power

    Aug 26, 2010 Carol Winkel
    Interest in demand response, which enables consumers to adjust their electricity use when the power system is stressed, has sharpened recently thanks in part to its potential to help integrate wind en

  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 and solar power. Becaus

  21. Building a Better Battery

    Aug 11, 2010 Carol Winkel
    In an earlier post, we talked about how batteries could help to integrate renewable resources like wind and solar energy into the power system.In another twist on this, Oregon Public Broadcasting is

  22. Putting a Value on Sustainable Buildings

    Aug 3, 2010 Carol Winkel
    Two years ago, we had the pleasure of talking with Theddi Wright Chappell, the managing director for Cushman & Wakefield's National Green Building and Sustainability Practice and Valuation Service

  23. Using Batteries to Store Energy

    Jul 28, 2010 Carol Winkel
    Interesting story in today's New York Times on using batteries to store electricity: The rapid growth of wind farms, whose output is hard to schedule reliably or even predict, has the nation's electr

  24. Growing Summer Energy Demand

    Jul 26, 2010 Carol Winkel
    One of the interesting trends noted in the Council's Sixth Power Plan was the region's shift from a winter-peaking power system to summer-peaking. This is happening primarily because more homes use ai

  25. California's Energy Scene

    Jul 23, 2010 Carol Winkel
    California is in the midst of an intense debate over its ambitious clean energy initiatives. In 2006, Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law an emissions reduction measure known as AB 32. The law inc
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