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loan from industry to the Advanced Research Projects 

 Agency in electro-optics and early-warning satellite 

 systems . 



This Testimony springs from over two years of analyses, 

 data presentations, and testimony urging the NORTHWEST 

 POWER PLANNING COUNCIL to revise the erroneous position 

 on SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS Q^Q9\.^il in their 1991 NORTHWEST 

 CONSERVATION and ELECTRIC POWER PLAN (91-04). That 

 COUNCIL position rejected any near-term consideration 

 of SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS Q% a strategic generation re- 

 source for the Region in favor of what the COUNCIL 

 euphemistically calls A CONSERVATION POh/ER PLANT --- TO 

 SECURE AT LEAST 1,500 ME6ANATTS OF CONSERVATION BY THE 

 YEAR 2000. The COUNCIL'S reservations, made with 

 scanty and non-existent documented support, extended to 

 BPA under a 'consistency" provision in the REGIONAL ACT 



(PL 96-501), perceived two UNCERTAINTIES TOO 



EXPENSIVE and QUESTIONED ADEQUACY OF SOLAR-FUEL IN THE 

 REGION. 



COUNCTI S "NEGAWATTS- RESPONSE M Fl FCTRICITY SHORTFALL 



In preparing the 1991 POWER PLAN and taking commentary 

 on the DRAFT, the Council ignored the engineering and 

 economic analyses, based in the two decades of 

 government and industry photovol taics research, 

 development and demonstrations, the data submittals. 



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