Public Comments

Title:	Preliminary Needs Assessment
Description:	<DIR><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT"><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">BPA and 135 Northwest utilities signed new power sales contracts in 2008 under which power deliveries will begin in Oct. 2011. The agency is now getting ready to supply power under these contracts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Accordingly, BPA is preparing a Resource Program to identify any gaps in its power supply and suggest types and amounts of resources to fill those gaps, as guided by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Northwest Power Plan.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The first step is to assess the ability of BPA’s federal power system supply to meet its expected obligations. This is the role of the needs assessment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>The <B><U>Preliminary Needs Assessment</U></B> looks at BPA’s power supply needs from several perspectives: The condition of BPA’s existing load/resource balance; potential effects of customers’ load placement choices beginning in 2012, and requirements to support the growing fleet of wind projects connected to BPA’s transmission grid.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">BPA is making its Preliminary Needs Assessment publicly available for interested parties to review. We welcome and will consider any feedback as we refine the tools, assumptions and inputs for the needs assessment in our Draft Resource Program.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt">Comments are numbered consecutively as they are received. Breaks in the number sequence result when comments are deleted because they were submitted in error or have inappropriate content (such as SPAM). If you do not see your comment two business days after you submit it, please contact us at (800) 622-4519.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P></DIR></FONT>
Start Date:	3/13/2009
End Date:	4/14/2009
Related information:	http://www.bpa.gov/power/P/ResourceProgram/Index.shtml

Bonneville Power Public Comments

Comments for Preliminary Needs Assessment