Our Northwest Energy

Blowing Dust, High Winds No Stranger to Eastern Washington

RICHLAND, WA - High winds and massive plumes of blowing dust darkened the sky in Eastern Washington Sunday afternoon. Nearly a dozen people ended up in emergency rooms from crashes related to the storm. State officials even closed I-90 between Moses Lake and Ritzville along with other roads.

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Top Power Producers in the Northwest

The Northwest Power and Conservation website provides an interactive, Google-generated map that displays power plants and their output in the Northwest.  By selecting different energy projects such as; hydroelectric, wind power, coal projects, biomass, nuclear energy, and natural gas, the map will display the location and output of the plant.

 

Wind Power Surge Challenges Grid Operator

PORTLAND, OR - Can there be too much of a good thing when it comes to wind power? The Bonneville Power Administration is confronting that question this summer. The regional grid operator has a pile of new connection requests from wind farm developers. There wouldn’t be much of a story if you could schedule the wind minute-by-minute. But correspondent Tom Banse reports a fickle energy source like this makes life in the control room more interesting.

OR Trail Bill Squashed by Big Power and Farmers

May 25, 2007

OREGON/It's a case of old vs. new. The historic Oregon Trail or gleaming new wind turbines.

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