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Title: Case studies of the legal and institutional obstacles and incentives to the development of small-scale hydroelectric power: South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Pasco, Washington

Abstract

The case study concerns two modern human uses of the Columbia River - irrigation aimed at agricultural land reclamation and hydroelectric power. The Grand Coulee Dam has become synonomous with large-scale generation of hydroelectric power providing the Pacific Northwest with some of the least-expensive electricity in the United States. The Columbia Basin Project has created a half-million acres of farmland in Washington out of a spectacular and vast desert. The South Columbia River Basin Irrigation District is seeking to harness the energy present in the water which already runs through its canals, drains, and wasteways. The South District's development strategy is aimed toward reducing the costs its farmers pay for irrigation and raising the capital required to serve the remaining 550,000 acres originally planned as part of the Columbia Basin Project. The economic, institutional, and regulatory problems of harnessing the energy at site PEC 22.7, one of six sites proposed for development, are examined in this case study.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
6814891
Report Number(s):
DOE/RA/23220-3
DOE Contract Number:  
FG03-78RA23220
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; LAND RECLAMATION; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; LEGAL ASPECTS; LOW-HEAD HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; IRRIGATION; REGULATIONS; RESOURCE POTENTIAL; WASHINGTON; ELECTRIC POWER; ENERGY SOURCES; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION; POWER; POWER PLANTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES; USA; 296001* - Energy Planning & Policy- Electric Power Generation- (-1989); 290400 - Energy Planning & Policy- Energy Resources

Citation Formats

Schwartz, L. Case studies of the legal and institutional obstacles and incentives to the development of small-scale hydroelectric power: South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Pasco, Washington. United States: N. p., 1980. Web. doi:10.2172/6814891.
Schwartz, L. Case studies of the legal and institutional obstacles and incentives to the development of small-scale hydroelectric power: South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Pasco, Washington. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6814891
Schwartz, L. 1980. "Case studies of the legal and institutional obstacles and incentives to the development of small-scale hydroelectric power: South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Pasco, Washington". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6814891. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6814891.
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title = {Case studies of the legal and institutional obstacles and incentives to the development of small-scale hydroelectric power: South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Pasco, Washington},
author = {Schwartz, L},
abstractNote = {The case study concerns two modern human uses of the Columbia River - irrigation aimed at agricultural land reclamation and hydroelectric power. The Grand Coulee Dam has become synonomous with large-scale generation of hydroelectric power providing the Pacific Northwest with some of the least-expensive electricity in the United States. The Columbia Basin Project has created a half-million acres of farmland in Washington out of a spectacular and vast desert. The South Columbia River Basin Irrigation District is seeking to harness the energy present in the water which already runs through its canals, drains, and wasteways. The South District's development strategy is aimed toward reducing the costs its farmers pay for irrigation and raising the capital required to serve the remaining 550,000 acres originally planned as part of the Columbia Basin Project. The economic, institutional, and regulatory problems of harnessing the energy at site PEC 22.7, one of six sites proposed for development, are examined in this case study.},
doi = {10.2172/6814891},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6814891}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980},
month = {Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980}
}