I'm very proud to have been part of the team that developed NIPPC's White Paper on BPA's Tariff Revision Process. Sitting through the settlement discussions over the past few weeks, I am repeatedly surprised by the confidence of BPA's staff that a few key changes to BPA's tariff will solve all of the operational challenges they are currently facing. Customers made a mistake in allowing BPA to … [Read more...] about BPA, TC-20, Backing into the Future
Transmission
BPA and Real Power Loss Returns
Bonneville’s transmission customers can compensate BPA for transmission losses through financial settlement or by returning power to BPA. In the Spring of 2017, BPA unilaterally decided it could force its customers to keep the energy they planned to deliver to BPA through “mandatory waivers” of those real power loss returns during oversupply conditions. While BPA was able to save customers … [Read more...] about BPA and Real Power Loss Returns
