Tagged: Bonneville Power Administration

9:31am

Thu May 19, 2011
Renewable Energy

BPA turns off NW wind turbines to make way for hydro power

Credit Rick Bowmer / AP

Northwest dam operators turned wind turbines off on Tuesday – putting into practice, a policy established just last week.

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12:57pm

Mon December 6, 2010
Other News

Most lights on again across San Juan Islands

Credit AP

KPLU Staff update at 4:32 pm, Monday

The light are on again for more than 9,000 Orcas Power and Light customers in the San Juan Islands. A late morning outage was caused by a problem at a substation operated by the Bonneville Power Administration.

In a short statement from Orcas Power and Light's website:

 

Power has been restored to all members with the exception of scattered areas of San Juan Island. Outage was caused by equipment failure at the BPA transmission station. 

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