Media Relations

Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, BPA Power Services works with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation to manage and care for the hydroelectric assets at the dams and works with Energy Northwest to do the same for the region’s one nuclear plan Columbia Generating Station. 

BPA also partners with its preference customers to implement energy efficiency measures to save energy and preserve the federal system. Energy efficiency is the least expensive and cleanest form of electricity. Megawatts saved help BPA and its customers to avoid acquiring the output of resources outside the existing federal power system, which saves money and avoids environmental impacts. 

Headquartered in Vancouver, Washington with 13 Operations and Maintenance Districts strategically positioned across the Northwest, BPA Transmission manages real-time operations of its part of the Northwest electric grid, provides open access to its transmission system to developers and other entities building generation assets. Manages a separate transmission queue for service across the grid and works with current customers to connect new electric loads. 

BPA provides access to numerous reports and other tools associated with its Transmission Operations. Transmission also published and continually updates its Wildfire Mitigation Plan that outlines and documents its efforts to protect its system assets and rights-of-way from wildfires. 

BPA’s Environment, Fish, and Wildlife Program mitigates for the effects of the federal hydropower and transmission systems, prevents environmental impacts, and provides compliance with a host of environmental laws.

General information on those efforts is available here. You can also find information on fish passage through the system. 

General information about BPA’s finances is available at this link. You can also review the BPA Financial Plan, which was completed in 2022. More granular information about BPA’s finances is available on the Quarterly Business Review page.

To better understand how BPA calculates its costs and sets its rates, visit the Rates and Tariff proceedings page. This page has information about BPA’s Power and Transmission rates and rate cases as well as information about the process to establish and modify the terms and conditions in the BPA Transmission Tariff.

BPA conducts numerous public processes each year to collect customer, constituent and public feedback about its proposed projects, expenditures and other activities. Information about past, ongoing and future process is available here. 

• John Hairston, Administrator and CEO
• Joel D. Cook, Chief Operating Officer
• Robin Furrer, Chief Administrative Officer
• Dan James, Chief Workforce and Strategy Office
• Suzanne Cooper, Senior Vice President, Power Services
• Richard Shaheen, Senior Vice President, Transmission Services
• Marcus Harris, Acting Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
• Ben Berry, Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer
• Tom McDonald, Executive Vice President of Compliance, Audit and Risk Management
• Scott Armentrout, Executive Vice President, Environment, Fish and Wildlife
• Marcus Chong Tim, Executive Vice President and General Counsel

• Bonneville
• Chief Joseph
• Grand Coulee
• Hungry Horse
• Ice Harbor
• John Day
• Little Goose
• Lower Granite
• Lower Monumental
• McNary
• The Dalles
• Collage of dams

Dam video zip file including the following dams:

• Chief Joseph 
• Hungry Horse
• Libby
• Little Goose
• Lower Granite
• Lower Monumental
• McNary