The Bonneville Lock and Dam on the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon. The Bonneville Power Administration will participate in the Western Resource Adequacy Program, approved by federal ...

Powerlines in Hood River County above the Columbia River move electricity from the Bonneville Dam to customers across the region on July 25, 2024. (Photo by Jordan Gale/Oregon Capital Chronicle) The ...

For decades, employment experts have warned of the pitfalls of big staff cuts: companies may save money in the short term, but it’s often at the expense of efficiency and employee trust. And in the ...

DOE, through the Bonneville Power Administration, intends to sign pre-development agreements for seven wind power projects, which would provide an additional 830 MW in the electricity-strapped Western ...

Building new high-voltage transmission is expensive, complex and complicated, but without it compliance with government clean-energy mandates will be difficult to achieve – maybe impossible. In July, ...

Chaos over the Trump administration's firing of federal government workers has even permeated a little-known agency at the center of the Pacific Northwest's largest source of electricity. This is ...

The Bonneville Power Administration has identified roughly $3 billion of transmission line and substation projects it said would be key for accommodating growing electricity demand and the expansion ...

The layoffs at the Bonneville Power Administration and other public power agencies raised concerns of increased blackouts in the western U.S. The Trump administration this weekend reversed some ...

The lawsuit argues the agency ignored its mandate to ensure cost-effective power by opting to join the Southwest Power Pool instead of the California-run market. A coalition of environmental groups is ...

The Democrats sent a letter to the President on Friday afternoon citing OPB’s reporting that BPA could lose nearly 20% of its staff because of buyouts, a hiring freeze and the termination of ...