PORTLAND — If the “Big One” — the anticipated massive Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake — hit today, Oregonians west of the Cascades would be luckiest to find themselves at the recently-retrofitted state Capitol in Salem or on the roof of the new terminal at the Portland International Airport. The comment from Tom Wharton, an engineer […]
GOLDENDALE, Wash. – High up on the Washington side of the Columbia River near the John Day hydroelectric dam, members of the Yakama Nation gathered to protest a clean energy storage project slated to be built on a sacred tribal site. Supporters of the Goldendale pumped-hydro energy storage project have said it will help meet […]
On Friday, March 8, 7 p.m., Bonneville Power Administration Library and Visitor Center archivist Libby Burke will give a talk at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center on its new exhibit, “High Voltage—BPA and the HVDC Test Center, 1963-2017.”
Plans for a $700 million high-voltage electrical transmission line between Oregon and Washington states have been cancelled after the cost doubled over the last eight years, the Bonneville Power Administration said Thursday, May 18.
With Google expanding into a new industrial park, and an expectation of more power customers moving there as well, North Wasco County PUD plans to build a new substation there.
With Google expanding into a new industrial park, and an expectation of more power customers moving there as well, North Wasco County PUD plans to build a new substation there.
At a meeting Monday in White Salmon, U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler bluntly told the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) it should immediately get safety marker balls placed on its new transmission lines across the Columbia River.
PORTLAND — The Bonneville Power Administration is looking at a normal water year after putting in place dry-year operations in 2015. Record-setting precipitation in December and a wet March have helped boost this year's water supply forecast.
The Celilo Converter Station in The Dalles went back online Thursday, Jan. 21, with the completion of a $370 million modernization of the one-of-a-kind station, according to the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).
