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suggests how much more we can do if we can find the resources 

 to do it. 



For renewables, I'll just suggest one other benchmark. There are 

 finally some serious negotiations under way to add renewable en- 

 ergy generation to the region in wind and geothermal and we very 

 much welcome that and commend Bonneville for it. 



But as a little stimulus, again, in one of those jurisdictions, Mr. 

 Chairman, that you mentioned to the south, we can go to just one 

 utility in a much less favorable renewable energy regime and find 

 some 9,000 wind turbines, not in negotiation, but on-line, generat- 

 ing about 923 megawatts of electricity, not hypothetical, not prom- 

 ised, but real, another reminder, another exhortation for all of us 

 to do more. 



In that effort, Mr. Chairman, we hope that you will support Bon- 

 neville's efforts to cut costs and delays in the procurement of con- 

 servation and renewable energy generation. I'm here to attest that 

 I believe that the effort that Randy Hardy and Sue Hickey de- 

 scribed is a serious one and potentially very productive. 



And I want to make one point that they really can't make. That 

 is that the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Depart- 

 ment of Energy are full of able people who want to manage the 

 Bonneville Power Administration. Those agencies have a great deal 

 of talent, but Mr. Chairman, you can't run Bonneville fi'om agen- 

 cies in the District of Columbia. 



And I hope this task force can help Bonneville and its constitu- 

 ents find ways to minimize those unnecessary burdens and really 

 to help unleash Bonneville as the entrepreneurial force that it has 

 to be in order to remain competitive and successfully deliver on the 

 untapped promise of energy efficiency and renewable energy. 



A final specific recommendation in our testimony that I will just 

 flag now is for the task force to support Bonneville in efforts to re- 

 store full environmental accounting in the resource acquisition 

 process. I say restore full environmental accounting, Mr. Chair- 

 man, because Bonneville was on the right track back in 1991 when 

 some of those DC-based agencies intervened. 



In particular, Bonneville was trying to do something about the 

 fact that right now all of Bonneville's customers are involuntary 

 and uncompensated insurers of the fossil fuel industry, against the 

 risk^ of fiiture taxation of carbon dioxide or future regulation of 

 carbon dioxide. 



Bonneville tried two approaches back in 1991 or at least got 

 them well under way. One was to assign a dollar cost to those 

 emissions when comparing them with other alternatives in order to 

 give some appropriate weight to that risk of future regulation or 

 tEtxation. The other was to shift the risk to suppliers of fossil fuel 

 generation. 



For reasons that are outlined at length in our testimony, neither 

 of those efforts was successful for reasons that aren't Bonneville's 

 fault. The bottom line is that a fair accoiinting for carbon dioxide 

 risks would greatly accelerate renewable energy development and 

 diversify the Northwest against what threatens to become a natu- 

 ral gas addiction. 



In the spirit, again, and this will be true, I think, of all of the 

 testimony you'll be hearing fi*om the efficiency and renewables com- 



