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SUPPLEMENTAL TESTIMONY 



QUESTION 1: Competitiveness 



How important is it for Bonneville to become more competitive and 

 what principles should guide Bonneville in this effort? 



We believe it is very important for Bonneville to become more 

 competitive — if becoming competitive means keeping electric 

 rates low and supplying energy as efficiently as possible. 



Canby has no generating capacity of its own. When Bonneville 

 raises its wholesale rates, we must raise our retail rates. Our 

 customers — everyone one of them, from the smallest household to 

 the largest company — feels the impact. 



Unfortunately, Bonneville's "competitiveness project," as it is 

 called, has to date consisted of mushy promises and self- 

 laudatory rhetoric. 



Bonneville talks about "reinventing itself," as if it could 

 transform itself and shed its complex and often conflicting 

 statutory mandates. We find it significant that Bonneville's 

 draft strategic business objectives, published recently, made no 

 reference to the Northwest Power Act, the Preference Act or any 

 other federal statute. 



We suggest therefore that one of the principles that should guide 

 Bonneville in becoming more competitive is its legal obligations 

 to its preference customers. 



That means looking carefully — within its statutory 

 obligations — for ways to become more efficient and responsive 

 to its traditional customers. 



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