Testimony on Bonneville Power Administration rates and policy: November 1978, May and August 1979. [Protest of increases to Calif. utilities]

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5188647

This publication includes four petitions of the California Energy Commission Chairman and staff opposing Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) discriminatory rate increases on surplus Federal hydroelectric energy sold to California utilities. Effective December 21, 1979 BPA increased these rates by 400% from 3 mills (tenths of a cent) per kWh to 15 mills, based upon half the estimated cost of oil generation of California utilities. This rate increase will cost California consumers over $160 million per year at 1979 oil prices, escalating as oil prices rise in the future. All other BPA rates, including those to the aluminum industry (consuming over one-quarter of BPA's power), will remain cost-based at the lowest rates in the United States. Northwest and aluminum company rates will rise by only about 80% because revenues from California will be used to reduce them below cost, according to one of the petitions. Additional transmission interties are required between the Pacific Northwest and Southwest (California, Nevada, and Arizona) to utilize fully the surplus Federal hydroelectric energy and summer peaking capacity. The new discriminatory rates and BPA policy vitiate against the early construction of these vital oil-saving interties.

• Research Organization: California Energy Commission, Sacramento (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5188647
• Report Number(s): P-500-80-007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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