Search results
Bonneville Power Administration. BPA delivers reliable, affordable and carbon-free hydropower produced in the Columbia River Basin to communities across the Northwest.
Because BPA sells nearly carbon-free power at cost, our customers enjoy low rates and cleaner energy. See BPA’s power contracts and products, view current power rates, get information on how to become a power customer and more.
The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is an American federal agency operating in the Pacific Northwest. BPA was created by an act of Congress in 1937 to market electric power from the Bonneville Dam located on the Columbia River and to construct facilities necessary to transmit that power.
3 days ago · Historically, the region has looked to the Bonneville Power Administration to meet rising energy demand. The BPA sells power at the wholesale level to utilities. This energy is produced at 31 federally operated dams, one nuclear plant, and other smaller power plants around the Northwest. The problem is that a 1980 law has long-handicapped the BPA.
The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) creates and delivers a reliable power supply to the Pacific Northwest.
The Bonneville Power Administration is a federal nonprofit wholesale power marketer that sells carbon-free electricity from 31 federal dams and one nuclear plant to millions of consumers and...
Mar 4, 2014 · Four federal Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs) - Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Southeastern Power Administration (SEPA), and Southwestern Power Administration (SWPA) - operate electric systems and sell the electrical output of federally owned and operated hydroelectric dams in 34 states.
Feb 11, 2016 · On February 8th, I visited the Bonneville Power Administration in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. I travelled to the Pacific Northwest to join BPA Administrator Elliot Mainzer for a firsthand look at the vital work they are doing to improve U.S. energy infrastructure and use new capabilities to maximize efficiency in our energy use.
The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) was created in 1937 as a temporary agency with a limited mission: to market and distribute electricity from Bonneville Dam, on the Columbia River. Its supporters expected that it would soon be replaced by a comprehensive planning entity like the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The Bonneville Power Administration, formed as an interim measure in anticipation of a regional administrative body like the Tennessee Valley Authority, has played a central role in the electrical energy system of the Pacific Northwest for over eighty years.
