The BPA has released a lengthy justification of the controversial curtailment measures, while the wind industry – which bitterly opposes them – found a new ally in the shape of the salmon-protection lobby.
To keep its system in balance during a spring in which river levels were the fourth highest since 1929, the BPA – which operates transmission and markets power from federal dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers – forced wind generators to shut down, instead serving their loads with surplus hydroelectric power.
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