Providing balanced information for using water as a renewable energy resource in the Northwest
Plans for a wind energy farm off the Oregon coast are to be developed by the Seattle firm Principle Power. By: Gosia Wozniacka The Associated Press – The Seattle Times PORTLAND — A Seattle company is being given…
Profits vs. fish on the North Umpqua By: Ted Taylor Eugene Weekly Some 65 dams came down for various reasons in the U.S. in 2012, according to National Geographic, and Oregon rivers are averaging three or four intentional dam…
Associated Press The U.S. Energy Department named a new administrator Monday to run the Bonneville Power Administration after a hiring scandal rocked the federal utility that sells and transmits much of the Northwest’s cheap and abundant hydroelectric power….
By: Jeff Mapes The Oregonian Could a small electrical cooperative in eastern Oregon up-end the state’s renewable energy law? That’s the question being asked as the Umatilla Electric Cooperative essentially tells legislators: Fix the renewable energy standards to…
Associated Press The Oregonian The United States has staked out its position for potential negotiations with Canada over a treaty governing hydropower and flood control on the Columbia River and seeks to keep more of the energy produced…
By: Becky Kramer The Spokesman-Review Last weekend’s doozy of a storm followed a classic Northwest weather script. Winds gusting to 40 mph blew moisture-rich air from the ocean into the Cascades and Northern Rockies, dumping snow on the mountains…
HydroWorld.com The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will add a third generating unit to the 10-MW Black Canyon Diversion Dam, potentially increasing the hydropower plant’s output capacity to 22.5 MW. Reclamation said the additional generating unit will “take…
By Rich Landers Spokesman Review Kokanee no longer pack enough influence to keep the U.S. Corps of Engineers from fluctuating water levels at Lake Pend Oreille during winter. Since 1996, the lake level behind Albeni Falls Dam has generally…
By Becky Kramer Spokesman Review Avista Corp. is moving into the Alaska market through the planned purchase of an electric utility serving the Juneau area. In a deal announced Monday, Avista will acquire Alaska Electric Light and Power’s parent…
By Christine Pratt Wenatchee World WENATCHEE — The Chelan County PUD’s top-priority repair has the powerhouse floor of Rocky Reach Dam looking something like a highly specialized yard sale. Turbine blades, bronze bushings the size of ottomans, boxes filled…