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"or example, in the area of conservation, BPA insists on running a centrally planned, 

 designed and administered conservation program which attempts to impose a one-size- 

 fits-all approval on a diverse region. As a utility, we spent over a year attempting to 

 reach a general consensus on the eleme-.ts of a comprehensive conservation program. 

 In addition, we spent 6 months concluding a very simple amendment to our current 

 residential weatherization contract. 



As to whether or not BPA is on track to acquire the amount of energy efficiency in 

 renewable resources that the Northwest Power Planning Council has targeted for 

 acquisition by the year 20(KH we would have to state that they are not. BPA has 

 identified available conservation and divided it up by area office and utility. However, 

 funding continues to be a problem. Our fiscal year ]993 Energy Smart Design funds 

 were completely allocated in two months and we have approximately 5,000 homes on our 

 residential weatherization waiting list. Under the current situation, it makes little 

 economic sense for a utility to fund its own program if they are a full-requirements 

 customer of BPA. 



Any concern about near term budget cuts preventing the achievement of BPA's 

 conservation goals, we believe, is misplaced. We believe that if BPA were to cut the 

 budget even more, thus eliminating the excess personnel involved in the process, and 

 they were to change the manner in which they sold power to utilities, the conservation 

 goal would be much more likely to be achieved. By implementing a block sale or tiered 



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