One year ago, BPA issued a plan focused on four strategic goals designed to keep the power marketing agency competitive and financially healthy.

BPA and PGE study how electric water heaters can act as storage devices for renewable energy providing hundreds of megawatts of capacity.

BPA and its partners have chosen to focus on collaboration instead of litigation with the objectives of improving salmon passage while providing affordable carbon-free hydropower to Northwest ratepayers.

The proposed average wholesale power rate increase is 2.9 percent for the two-year rate period and the average transmission rate increase is 3.6 percent.