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the Northwest PoMer Planning Council Power Plan 

 that is in affect at the time, (emphasis added) 



A Solar Voltaic Generation Proposal for 800 oHH at 



2.8t/kHh was obviously not CONSISTENT with 30«/kMh cost 



and solar-fuel uncertainties of the 1991 POWER PLAN. 



BPA-RHGC by letter of June 30. 1992 rejected the Solar 



Voltaic Generation Proposal with; 



BPA agrees with the Council that solar has 

 uncertainties which preclude it from being 

 considered a reliable cost-effective resource 

 at this time. For this reason it was not included 

 in our request for energy options. 



Hore recently, and curious in light of the 18. 6X 

 (Gross) of the FY 199'» Budget Obligations to debt 

 service, operations and mothballing of HNP-1, 2 & 3, a 

 BPA-RfIG letter of Hay 7, 1993 declining an offer to the 

 Administrator to Brief and set up the SVG PLANT liOCKUP 

 for display at BPA Headquarters, responded; 



BPA is prohibited by Federal Law from 

 designing, owning, constructing, operating, 

 or maintaining generation facilities. This 

 prohibition includes substations within 

 generating plants, such as the ones (described in 

 conceptual terms) which you have proposed that 

 BPA design and construct. In addition, due to 

 the current BPA fiscal crisis, occasioned 

 primarily by the ongoing drought and resulting 

 power purchases, we have had to cut back on many 

 worthwhile programs and projects, and are 

 not beginning any new ones for the foreseeable 

 future. Therefore, no funds or personnel ore 

 available to engage in basic research concerning 

 NON-VERIFIABLE CONCEPTS, such as your Solar 

 Voltaic Generation, (emphasis added) 



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