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EWEB 



Eugene Water & Electric Board 



500 East 4ih Avenue 



Posl Office Box 101^ 



Eugene. Oregon 97440-2148 S03-4M-241 1 



BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION 



TASK FORCE HEARING 



July 12, 1993 



Fax 503.484-3762 



Commlssloncra 



S^ran Henarckson 

 S-s« Sm.in 

 MiKe Dyer 

 DofOtMv Anoefson 



Qanmm Manager 



flandy L Berggren 



Bonneville has a very important role to play in regional resource acquisition. 

 It centers around the coordinated development of conservation and generation 

 resources which we believe can be enhanced under the eusting structure of the 

 Regional Act. Such coordinated development cannot be enhanced under the existing 

 structure at Boimeville, however. Basic changes in the way BPA does business must 

 occur if we are to capture the conservation and renewable resources envisioned by tiie 

 Act. 



Currently, resource development in the Pacific Northwest appears to be 



fractured, with investor-owned utilities acquiring resoiures according to their PUC- 



approved resource plans, public utilities providing resources through the BPA 'billing 



credits" mechanism, and independent power producers bidding resources to both BPA 



and the region's public and private utilities. By focusing on the creation of a viable 



"new resource pool" providing services to both the region's public and private 



utilities, BPA can continue to play a significant role in resource acquisition while at 



the same time allowing the region's public and private utilities to fimction 



autonomously in the pursuit of their individual resource plans. 



1. What are BPA's strengths and weaknesses in the resource 



acquisition field? In particular, is the BPA conserration program 

 acquiring all cost-efTective efHciency and renewable resources? Is 

 BPA on track to acquire the amount of energy efficiency and 

 renewable resource that the Northwest Power P lannin g Council has 

 targeted for acquisition by the year 2000? Will near-term budget 

 cuts prevent the region from achieving these goals? 



