Download or read book Financial Aspects of the Washington Public Power Supply System written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Washington Public Power Supply System written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mining, Forest Management, and Bonneville Power Administration and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bonneville Power Administration BPA and Washington Public Power Supply System WPPSS Bonneville Power Administration spending and the Luce report on the Washington Public Power Supply System WPPSS written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mining, Forest Management, and Bonneville Power Administration and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Financial Aspects of the Washington Public Power Supply System written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nuclear Implosions written by Daniel Pope and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows a small public agency in Washington State that undertook one of the most ambitious construction projects in the nation in the 1970s: the building of five large nuclear power plants. By 1983, delays and cost overruns, along with slowed growth of electricity demand, led to cancellation of two plants and a construction halt on two others. Moreover, the agency defaulted on $2.25 billion of municipal bonds, leading to a monumental court case that took nearly a decade to resolve fully. Daniel Pope sets this in the context of the postwar boom's ending, the energy shocks of the 1970s, a new restraint in forecasting demand, and shifting patterns of municipal finance. Nuclear Implosions also traces the entangling alliance between civilian nuclear energy and nuclear weapons and recounts a telling example of how the law has become a primary method of resolving disputes in a litigious society.

Download or read book Energy Northwest written by Gary K. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation is currently at the beginning of a serious energy crisis. For the electrical utility industry, it is the most serious crisis since the 1970s, with a shortfall in generating capacity and skyrocketing fuel prices. At the same time, legislation to deregulate the industry is stuck in Congress; rolling blackouts are plaguing California and threatening the Northwest; elected officials are frozen by ideology over good governance - and there is no end in sight. How did we get in this condition? In the Pacific Northwest, the answer to this and many related questions can be found in Energy Northwest: A History of the Washington Public Power Supply System. This work documents the joint operating agency made up of publicly owned utilities that became Energy Northwest. But for most of its existence the agency was known as the Washington Public Power Supply System - WPPSS, or, simply the Supply System. Its founders were veterans of years of conflict between their public utilities and the powerful private utilities of the region. Public power leaders hoped to provide their ratepayers reliable and affordable electricity, at the cost of production, for the future. Founded in 1957, the agency got into business by building and operating a small hydroelectric plant called the Packwood Lake Project located in the majestic Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Then in 1966, WPPSS built the Hanford Generating Project, a power facility that used the steam created by the N-reactor, a plutonium producing defense plant on the Hanford Reservation 25 miles north of Richland, Washington. The Supply System ran the plant for 20 years before the N-reactor shut down for good, taking away the source of steam from Hanford Generating Project. As Hanford Generating Project began to churn out power, in the late 1960s, the region initiated a planning process to build more thermal plants, since no more hydroelectric dams would be built. This ambitious effort - the Hydro-Thermal Power Plan - enthusiastically sponsored by the federal power marketing agency Bonneville Power Administration, envisioned up to 20 nuclear and coal powered plants in the Northwest. This frenzied effort was in response to the Energy Crisis of 1974 and the reliance on an outmoded energy forecasting system that projected power blackouts and economic chaos. Two nuclear power plants were eventually built and operated - Portland General Electric´s Trojan plant, near Ranier, Oregon, and WPPSS´s WNP-2, at Hanford. Others were planned, at Pebble Springs near Arlington, Oregon, and in the Skagit Valley in Northwest Washington, which were abandoned early on. But the major effort went into five nuclear power plants to be built and operated by the Washington Public Power Supply System. The Joint Power Planning Council, representing all the region´s utilities and hosted by Bonneville, and the Public Power Council asked WPPSS to build these plants and build them quickly. Two were to be located on a forested hilltop near Satsop, in western Washington, and three at the remote Hanford Reservation. Of these only WNP-2 (now renamed Columbia Generating Station) was completed. Since it began commercial operation in 1985, the plant produces 1,150 net megawatts of electricity at full power, enough to serve the greater Seattle area. The other four were mothballed and later terminated in various stages of completion after years of construction woes and stunning cost overruns. The ratepayers of the Northwest continue to pay off the revenue bonds for three of those - WNP-1, WNP-3, and Columbia Generating Station - through a financial arrangement with Bonneville. The Supply System defaulted on the bonds for the other two - WNP-4 and WNP-5 - to the tune of $2.25 billion, the largest municipal bond default in U.S. history to that time. The aftermath of this disaster was extremely damaging, not only for those bondholders who received only pennies on the dollar after years

Download or read book Analysis of Resource Alternatives Summary and Conclusions Bonneville Power Administration written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nuclear Power and Ratepayer Protest written by Wayne H. Sugai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1982, the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) terminated two nuclear projects, triggering an episode of mass ratepayer insurgency throughout the state. In this survey of the crisis, Dr. Sugai analyzes the political and economic conditions that precipitated the protest and examines citizen opposition to the WPPSS nuclear venture between 1976 and 1981. His review of the public initiative campaigns aimed at the Northwest utility establishment by local antinuclear forces and the role of key individuals and organizations involved in anti-WPPSS activism are central to the discussion. By emphasizing the organizational dynamics of citizen opposition, the analysis clarifies the influence of antinuclear protest in bringing about the WPPSS crisis, which is still in litigation over disputed financial and management liability claims. Finally, the author offers insights into the implications of the 1980 Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act and the role of the new Northwest Power Planning Council in regional electrical energy planning.

Download or read book Washington Public Power Supply System written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Financial Community s Perceived Impacts Which Could Result from Default Or Successful Legal Challenge by Participants in Washington Public Power Supply System Nuclear Project Nos 4 And 5 written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial Community's Perceived Impacts Which Could Result From Default or Successful Legal Challenge by Participants in Washington Public Power Supply System Nuclear Project Nos. 4 and 5

Download or read book Staff Report on the Investigation in the Matter of Transactions in Washington Public Power Supply System Securities written by United States. Securities and Exchange Commission and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Illusions of Power written by D. Victor Anderson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bonneville Power Administration BPA and Washington Public Power Supply System WPPSS written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mining, Forest Management, and Bonneville Power Administration and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Washington Public Power Supply System WNP 2 Environmental Costs and Benefits Case Study Final Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bonneville Power Administration Financial Fallout from Termination of WPPSS Nuclear Projects 4 and 5 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mining, Forest Management, and Bonneville Power Administration and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: