Transmission Services

BPA Transmission Services delivers energy across 15,000 miles of high-voltage transmission wire across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. BPA Transmission is committed to being a dependable, responsive business partner that proactively navigates a changing environment to achieve economic and reliability benefits for our customers and the region. Transmission Services is committed to the following practices:
  • Streamlining and modernizing processes and systems to support enhanced situational awareness and data-driven decision-making.
  • Offering open access transmission service through standardized and value-based products.
  • Supporting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

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Latest News & Events

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Grid Access Transformation (GAT) Future State: Proactive Planning & Accelerate Expansion

BPA will be providing a public update on the Proactive Planning and Accelerate Expansion components of its Grid Access Transformation program. Materials will be posted prior to the meeting on the

TC-28 Pre-Proceeding Workshop

BPA will hold a series of monthly pre-proceeding workshops from April through December 2026 to discuss proposed changes to BPA’s tariff to enable BPA’s participation in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Markets+ day ahead market.

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Doing Business

This section includes information on how to become a customer and guidance, training and notices on maintaining the customer relationship.

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Products & Services

This section includes information on interconnection; PTP, NT and ancillary services; telecommunications and related projects.

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Operations & Reliability

This section includes information on outages, operations and risk mitigation. 

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Reports & Tools

This section includes information on transmission availability, performance and other metrics. 

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