Northwest Power Planning

Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan, Part I

The Transformer – Energy efficiency brings good things to life

The new official power and conservation plan for the Northwest confirms that more than enough inexpensive energy efficiency is availability to meet most new electricity needs.

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Energy Matters Update – March 16, 2010

Moving the region toward a Bright Future: The new Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan

Every five years the region’s official power planning agency, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, produces a new 20-year forecast of growing electricity needs and a prescription for meeting them. The recently approved Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan charts an aggressive clean energy path for our region’s future.

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Energy efficiency: The key to our clean energy future

Coalition director Sara Patton discusses how The Northwest’s official electric power planning agency has confirmed, once again, that energy efficiency is the best and cheapest way to cover the next generation’s electricity needs in today’s Oregonian guest column.

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Power Plan: Conserving energy will create jobs

The Columbian has an article about how energy efficiency upgrades will put more green in the wallets of 47,000 workers in four Western states over the next 20 years, according to a plan approved by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council.

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NW power plan focuses on efficiency and reducing emissions

NW Energy Coalition statement on adoption of the Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan Feb. 10, 2010 The Northwest Power and Conservation Council has just approved the most far-sighted power plan in the official regional energy-planning agency’s 30-year history. The Council’s Sixth Plan calls for meeting most new electricity needs over the next 20 years…

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NPCC 6th Northwest Power Plan Background

Every five years, the Northwest’s official power planning agency – the Northwest Power and Conservation Council — conducts a fresh assessment of the region’s long-term electricity needs and issues a blueprint for meeting them.

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Energy Activist chronicles Power Council's 6th Plan hearings

The newest edition of The Energy Activist chronicles the recent four-state hearing process for the Northwest Power and Conservation Plan.

In city after city, state after state, hundreds rallied and spoke for a Northwest Power and Conservation Plan to boost our use of energy efficiency and renewable energy.

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