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"Bonneville has gained little information about costs and 

 savings in this (industrial] sector. Little is known 

 about the ability of the private sector infrastructure to 

 deliver significant savings... The current Bonneville 

 industrial program is not designed to capture all cost- 

 effective conservation or lost opportunities." (pp. 7-8) 



Now we have the same people who urged the spending cuts which 

 prevented adequate capability-building in the '80's 

 criticizing Bonneville for alleged program imperfections 

 today. It is, of course, the failure to use the grace period 

 of the surplus to experiment and learn how to most efficiently 

 and effectively capture the conservation resource which now 

 necessitates our learning on the run in our conservation 

 acquisition efforts. 



As long as we respond to the rate crisis of the moment we can 

 expect sluggish resource acquisition performance, especially 

 under the divided responsibilities built into the Regional 

 Act. It wasn't that long ago that Randy Hardy, as Seattle 

 City Light's Superintendent, was writing to Jim Jura urging 

 Bonneville to take the long-term perspective on resource 

 acquisition. Today we have Seattle City Light Superintendent 

 Roberta Palm Bradley writing the same kind of letter to Randy 

 Hardy as Bonneville Administrator. 



Because conservation acquisition requires direct arrangements 

 with consumers, the Regional Power Act directs Bonneville to 

 make the maximum practical use of utilities in acquiring the 

 conservation resource. Of necessity Bonneville and the 

 utilities must work in partnership with each other to acquire 

 the conservation resource. Yet the seeming inability of 

 Bonneville and its partners to adhere to the long-term 

 perspectives on any kind of sustained basis for conservation 



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