1985 Firm Displacement Power Rate Proposal : Administrator's Record of Decision.

Technical Report · Sun Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:6427965

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) first proposed a Firm Displacement Power (FD) rate in September 1984 as part of the initial 1985 wholesale rate proposal. The proposed FD rate was part of a package of rates designed to provide BPA flexibility in marketing its surplus firm power in a competitive and uncertain market. Believing that the rate needed further study, on December 11, 1984, BPA withdrew the proposed FD rate from consideration in the 1985 rate proceeding. BPA continued to pursue discussions with Pacific Northwest (PNW) and Pacific Southwest (PSW) utilities regarding potential sales of PNW surplus firm power to California markets. When several utilities expressed interest in the FD concept (in which BPA would sell its surplus firm power on a long-term basis to PNW utilities, who would use the FD power to serve their regional load and make a long-term firm sale of their own generating resources to the PSW), BPA held a series of weekly informal public meetings. The series of meetings, which began in June 1985, included discussion of contract issues. After assessing the discussions held at the first four meetings, BPA announced at the July 12, 1985, meeting that the FD rate would be developed in a hearing process pursuant to section 7(i) of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act (Pacific Northwest Power Act).

• Research Organization: USDOE Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, OR
• OSTI ID: 6427965
• Report Number(s): DOE/BP-674; ON: DE87010351
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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