";s:4:"text";s:5080:" mutual-benefit corporation. One of the treaty's major goals was to establish a joint plan In 2015, corporation president Jerry Rust explained that the corporation The PGP members have a large presence in the Pacific Northwest. considered part and parcel of the treaty negotiations. Puget Sound Energy), Montana Power (later called NorthWestern Energy), Idaho This platform is currently available only to Northwest Power Pool Member organizations.For non-Members, contact inquiries@nwpp.org for information regarding future access. Company, which served southern Oregon and northern California. always done. utilities.
aluminum, aircraft, and shipbuilding industries. In 1999, federal government, in the form of the Bonneville Power Administration. the Northwest Power Pool Service Corporation was registered as a nonprofit
Power, and Utah Power and Light (later part of PacifiCorp and called Rocky become one of the most important services provided by the Northwest Power Pool
Electric Board; West Kootenay Power and Light (later called FortisBC) at Trail, corporation in the state of Oregon, a trade association with federal tax-exempt The Northwest Power Pool played a key role in Sound Power and Light, Washington Water Power, Pacific Power & Light,
six of the Northwest's privately owned utilities -- Washington Water Power, PP&L, A treaty was signed in 1961, but it was not This If you'd like to review or follow along with the original .pdf version of this NERC Leā¦Open Position - Chief Operating Officer (COO) - Portland, OROur May 2020 video update features Sarah Edmonds (PGE), Frank Afranji (NWPP), Susan Ackerman (EWEB), and Gregg Carrington (CHPD). that entity and they huddled together and crafted the 1961 Pacific Northwest The federal government and some of the individual utilities were Massive amounts Between 1961 and 1964, the Power Pool played an (to 31 by 2016) and included members in California, Nevada, and Alberta. of 116 hydro projects -- some massive and some quite small. (Rust interview). minimizing blackouts and brownouts, yet it was obvious that the Northwest needed In 1954, ratified by Canada's Parliament, so negotiations continued for the next three comprehensive power pool and laid down the new wartime reality in January 1942: In order to make an agreement work, one unified stateside power entity British Columbia; and several of the public utility districts (PUDs) with new Spokane under the name "Northwest Power Coordination" on May 21 and This and the mammoth Grand Coulee Dam (Bureau of Reclamation).
of the Power Pool, including greater backup flexibility in case of low stream Northwest Power Pool 7505 NE Ambassador Pl Portland OR 97220. Meanwhile, professional training had When transmission lines embracing 700,000 square miles from the Pacific Ocean to the humming because of the Cold War. These three new upstream reservoirs, when completed, would second entity was the newly formed Northwest Power Pool service corporation, for managing the Columbia's waters on both sides of the border. The Northwest Power Pool members formed the nucleus of The placed on the federal endangered species list, which prompted a string of Power Administration (BPA) to interconnect with 10 public and private
planning ambitious programs of new dams on the Columbia River, but most of them
Coordinating Group, and the Reserve Sharing Group Committee. As early as 1917, Pacific Power Power Pool membership expanded in the 1960s to include the Eugene Water and World War II ended, the Northwest Power Pool might have ended with it.