By Staff
Daily Journal of Commerce
BELLEVUE – Puget Sound Energy recently completed a new fish hatchery and upstream trap-and-haul facility on Baker River in the North Cascades. (more…)
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PSE completes Baker River hatchery
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010By Staff
New face for the Falls
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Work in high gear for upgrade, lowering of dam
By Seth Truscott
Snoqualmie Valley Record
Normally, the power generators at the Snoqualmie Falls hydroelectric plant run at a painful roar.
This summer, the machinery is silent for the first time in more than a century.
The silence is bittersweet for folks like Power Plant Manager Dave Magnuson, who has worked alongside mementos of history at the Puget Sound Energy-run site for two years.
“I never thought I’d forget that day,” he said when the generators 270 feet below the Falls were shut down. (more…)
As wind power booms, so do the challenges
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010The revolution happening along the Columbia River is full of promise. But wind power is fickle, and keeping our energy system running smoothly has become “the great economic and engineering challenge of our time.”
By Hal Bernton
Seattle Times
CENTERVILLE, Klickitat County — Along the ridge-top flanks of the Columbia River, hundreds upon hundreds of wind turbines rise from wheat fields and sagebrush.
On a blustery spring day, these turbines can crank out more than twice the power of the Northwest’s sole nuclear power plant. Then, on hot days in the summer, when the winds go still, the output plunges.
The turbines represent perhaps the most dramatic change to the regional power-supply system since the construction of the Bonneville Dam launched the era of federal power. (more…)