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Monday, August 8, 2016

Legislative Announcements

CEQ releases final NEPA guidance on assessing climate change impacts; Rice, Blumenauer introduce nuclear PTC fix; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service finalizes methodology for ESA listings; BPA supports revised proposal for regional ISO governance; DOE releases Hydropower Vision report; White House announces commitments to accelerate safe drone use; Tax Foundation releases report critical of municipal bonds; N.Y. approves clean energy standard with 50percent renewable mandate, subsidies for nuclear and renewables; and Personnel: NEI ousts two; Clark, Edwards, Chapman move on; E&C hires Ivanauskas.

Public Power Industry Announcements

PNGC Power names Scott Russell as vice president of Transmission & Contracts; Chelan’s Suzanne Grassell honored as an influential woman in hydropower; Refunding of bonds saves Clallam PUD over $800,000; https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/online/ 1/4 8/15/2016 eBulletin Online | Northwest Public Power Association Columbia River PUD introduces cooling program for lowincome households; Chelan County to breathe easier with PUD biofuel switch for utility fleet; EPUD awards five 2016 EmPOWERing scholarships; OPALCO members can take advantage of energy efficiency rebates while the sun is shining; Columbia River PUD hosts blood drive; Apple Can Sell Power as Tech Giants Boost Investments; and Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear plant, performs well (Opinion).

Associate Member Announcements

HDR employee uses CPR skills to save a life; Novinium hires Dean Stone as Canadian regional sales manager; Ed Wilson joins D’Ewart Representatives L.L.C.; and Luminaire longevity for AreaMax LED in marine environments.

Upcoming Educational Opportunities

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2016 Fall Line Up

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Northwest Communications & Energy Innovations Conference September 1114, 2016

Speaker Training Camp from a TEDx Trainer: How to Become a More Condent, Dynamic, and Riveting Speaker September 14, 2016

Administrative Professional Certicate Level 3: All Four Days September 1316, 2016

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Administrative Professional Certicate Level 3: Day 2 – Project Management September 14, 2016

A Guide to the Wonderful World of RUS Accounting September 14 – 15, 2016 Distribution Engineering Series: Session 2 – Overcurrent Protection September 14 – 15, 2016

Writing Eective Job Descriptions September 1415, 2016

The Customer Focus September 1415, 2016

Industry Calendar of Events

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RFP/RFQs

Utilities: NWPPA offers its utility members the opportunity (at no cost) to post RFPs and RFQs on our website at no charge. Reach out to NWPPA’s almost 4,000 associate member contacts that supply goods and services to the utility industry and might be interested in responding to your utility RFP/RFQ. To post your RFP/RFQ, visit our RFP/RFQ page. For more information, contact Debbie K. at [email protected].

Associate Members: Make sure to check out NWPPA’s RFP/RFQ Web page to view utility RFP listings. Listings are posted as they are received by NWPPA.

New RFP posted August 2, 2016!

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Recent Industry Job Openings

View the job opportunities posted to NWPPA’s website in the past week.

On This Day in History

Nixon and Agnew receive the Republican Party nomination; Nixon resigns; Lights go on at Wrigley; and Spike Lee’s first feature, She’s Gotta Have It, premieres.

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CEQ releases nal NEPA guidance on assessing climate change impacts

Update provided by Morgan Meguire

On August 2, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released nal guidance on how federal agencies should assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) and climate change impacts of major federal actions under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The new guidance, while not legally binding, directs agencies not only to assess a proposed action’s impact on climate change, but also the impacts of climate change on the proposed action.

NEPA requires agencies to assess the environmental impacts of any major agency action, including permitting private projects and promulgating new regulations. Agencies have their own individual NEPA processes, and they have broad discretion in the level of assessment required and whether the environmental concerns raised warrant a change in course from the proposed action. However, project challengers are frequently able to delay or modify actions by suing on the basis of an incomplete NEPA review.

Most agencies have incorporated some type of climate change assessment in their NEPA reviews. The new guidance aims to provide a more uniform approach to these assessments across agencies and makes a number of specic recommendations. The recommendations suggest that agencies should:

Quantify a proposed action’s projected direct and indirect GHG emissions, taking into account available data and quantication tools suitable for the proposed agency action; Use projected GHG emissions as a “proxy” for assessing potential climate change eects; When tools, methodologies, or data inputs are not reasonably available to quantify a project’s emissions, include a qualitative analysis in the NEPA document and explain the basis for determining that quantication is not reasonably available; https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/legislative/ 1/10 8/15/2016 Legislative Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association Consider short- and long-term eects and benets in alternatives and mitigation analysis; Use available information when assessing the potential future state of the aected environment in a NEPA analysis, instead of undertaking new research; Use the information developed during the NEPA review to consider alternatives that would make the actions and aected communities more resilient to the eects of a changing climate; Select the appropriate level of NEPA review to assess the broad-scale eects of GHG emissions and climate change, either to inform programmatic decisions or at both the programmatic and tiered project- or site-specic level, and to set forth a reasoned explanation for the agency’s approach; and Use the “rule of reason” inherent in NEPA and the CEQ Regulations to determine, based on the agency’s expertise and experience, how to consider an environmental eect and prepare an analysis based on the available information.

The guidance does not set a threshold for the amount of emissions that is cause for concern, walking back from CEQ’s 2014 proposal that agencies perform additional analysis on projects expected to produce the equivalent of at least 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year. However, in a nod to smaller projects that contribute to aggregate emissions, it cautions agencies that issuing “a statement that emissions from a proposed federal action represent only a small fraction of global emissions” is essentially a statement about the nature of the climate change challenge, and is not an appropriate basis for deciding whether or to what extent to consider climate change impacts under NEPA.”

Agencies may consider long-term GHG benets of vegetation management

In particular, the guidance sets out special recommendations for actions concerning biogenic sources of carbon, including land-use plans, vegetation management, and water management practices, all of which may have long-term carbon benets despite short-term releases.

“One example of agencies dealing with biogenic emissions and carbon sequestration arises when agencies consider proposed vegetation management practices that aect the risk of wildre, insect and disease outbreak, or other disturbance,” the guidance says. “CEQ acknowledges that federal land and resource management agencies are developing agency-specic principles and guidance for considering biological carbon in management and planning decisions. Such guidance is expected to address the importance of considering biogenic carbon uxes and storage within the context of other management objectives and ecosystem service goals, and integrating carbon considerations as part of a balanced and comprehensive program of sustainable management, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation.”

Potential implications

The guidance is not legally binding on agencies and does not require them to modify their own internal NEPA processes, although many agencies may update their plans before the end of the year. One agency to watch is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which has rejected prior calls to consider the upstream and downstream GHG emissions impacts of permitting new liqueed natural gas (LNG) export terminals and https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/legislative/ 2/10 8/15/2016 Legislative Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association other projects that allow more fossil fuels to reach the market. LNG advocates criticized the guidance for hindering the very infrastructure that will reduce global emissions, as other nations replace coal with gas.

The guidance also, for the rst time, recommends agencies consider a project in the context of a changing climate. The guidance encourages analysis of whether the site of a proposed action is already vulnerable and changing due to climate change, and whether the proposed action may exacerbate that change. The guidance intends for this analysis, along with mitigation and adaptation options, to guide agency decisions on whether or not to proceed with a given option.

It is not clear whether the guidance would open the door to legal challenges on the basis of an agency’s failure to adequately consider the impacts of climate change on an agency action.

Political response

The fact that the guidance has been released this late in the year reects a growing certainty among Obama Administration ocials that Hillary Clinton will occupy the White House next year. As non-binding guidance, the document would not require a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn – a Republican President could easily withdraw or overwrite the guidance.

Nevertheless, Congressional Republicans are likely to elevate issuance of the guidance to the forefront. Leading climate change skeptic and Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Jim Inhofe (R–Okla.) charged that the guidance “has no eect” because President Obama has not nominated anyone to lead CEQ and that climate change is outside the scope of NEPA. House Energy and Power Subcommittee Chair Ed Whiteld (R–Ky.) and Vice Chair Pete Olson (R–Texas) responded to the guidance saying, “Our economy needs a boost, not a blanket of increased red tape, costs, and more litigation.”

Rice, Blumenauer introduce nuclear PTC x

Update provided by Morgan Meguire

On July 14, Reps. Tom Rice (R–S.C.) and Earl Blumenauer (D–Ore.) introduced H.R. 5879, a bill to modify the existing production tax credit (PTC) for advanced nuclear power. NWPPA has encouraged its delegation members to support the x.

The original nuclear PTC, authorized in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, was designed to incentivize up to 6,000 MW of new advanced reactors placed in service before 2020. So far, two projects totaling 4,400 MW have qualied for the credit, and no other projects are expected to be placed in service before the 2020 deadline.

The Rice-Blumenauer bill would remove the deadline, but leave the megawatt cap in place. That change would allow projects currently in the pipeline to qualify for the credit, while not increasing the cost of the https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/legislative/ 3/10 8/15/2016 Legislative Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association provision. If the deadline is removed, it is likely that the small modular reactor (SMR) project involving NWPPA members Energy Northwest and the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) would be well- positioned to qualify for the credit, as the project is scheduled to be placed in service around 2024.

Of interest to public power, the bill would also facilitate sharing the credit with not-for-prot utility partners such as UAMPS and Energy Northwest. Municipal and cooperative utilities are partners in the two projects currently slated to receive the credit as well.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service nalizes methodology for ESA listings

Update provided by Morgan Meguire

On July 27, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (Fish & Wildlife) published in the Federal Register a nal methodology for prioritizing species status reports and related ndings on petitions for listing species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The guidance is intended to help the agency address outstanding workload and resources issues and provide transparency to other agencies and stakeholders.

Under current law, the agency has 90 days (to the maximum extent practicable) from receiving a petition to make a status review – a nding on whether the petition presents “substantial information” that a listing may be warranted – and a subsequent 12 months to make a nding on whether a listing is actually warranted or not. The number of petitions requesting species listing received between 2007 and 2015 has resulted in a backlog of more than 500 pending status reviews. Fish & Wildlife said that these statutory deadlines have proven unworkable, given available resources.

Under the new methodology, Fish & Wildlife will place each pending status review in one of ve priority categories (or “bins”) based on the available biological data; threats to the species; conservation eorts planned or underway that can address those threats; and the existence of any new or developing science that can help inform the status review.

1. Highest Priority: Critically Imperiled – Will be given to species that appear to be in danger of extinction now and for which Fish & Wildlife has “strong information” indicating an “urgent need” for protection of the species and to emergency listings. 2. Strong Data Available on Species’ Status – Species where strong data is already available supporting a clear decision will continue to receive second priority. 3. New Science Underway to Inform Key Uncertainties – Species for which new science is underway to inform key uncertainties will be given next priority for completion. Changes to this category clarify that new information should be available to Fish & Wildlife within a timeframe that is reasonable,

https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/legislative/ 4/10 8/15/2016 Legislative Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association considering what information is already known about threats, status, and trends for the species, and how pivotal the new study would be to inform a status determination. 4. Conservation Eorts in Development or Underway – Species for which proactive conservation eorts by states, landowners, and stakeholders are underway or being developed, where those eorts are “organized and likely to reduce threats to the species.” The category also has a new “reasonable timeframe” requirement to be considered for placement in this bin. 5. Limited Data Currently Available – Species where limited information is available regarding its threats or status.

Additional “sub-ranking” factors are also articulated that will allow Fish & Wildlife to move actions for species within, but not between, bins and when exceptions to priority rankings can be made. The new methodology does not apply to actions to delist species or to “uplist” a species from “threatened” to “endangered” status.

BPA supports revised proposal for regional ISO governance

Update provided by Morgan Meguire

The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), on August 2, submitted comments supporting changes in the California ISO’s (CAISO) Revised Proposal on Principles for Governance of a Regional ISO. CAISO released the revision in response to comments received on its initial June 9 proposal.

Noting that it owns and operates nearly 75 percent of the high-voltage transmission system in the Pacic Northwest and is connected with other transmission systems from Canada to California, and from the Pacic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains, BPA said its transmission assets “are an indispensable link between Pacic Northwest entities and an expanded ISO footprint.”

BPA said the Revised Proposal “provides for more eective engagement in the planning and oversight of a regional Independent System Operators (ISO) for aected entities.” It noted specically the changes that will give a representative of the power marketing administrations (PMAs) a role on the Transitional Committee tasked with developing a regional governance plan, and as a non-voting member of the Western States Committee – the advisory board of state regulators or other persons nominated by each state in the footprint. These changes give the PMAs a “voice” at the policy level, even if they do not choose to join the ISO as a Participating Transmission Owner or Energy Imbalance Market Entity.

BPA also recommended other changes to the proposal, including that the stakeholder process allow involvement in developing the new governance policy and plan, not just in commenting on it. One way to accomplish this would be to create an advisory committee of utilities and constituents from sectors in the regional footprint that engaged directly with the ISO board. BPA also recommended that the nal proposal

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Additionally BPA again sought clarication from CAISO on whether and how the EIM Board and the Regional ISO Board will work together, suggesting that this could be another specic assignment to the Transitional Committee.

DOE releases Hydropower Vision report

Update provided by Morgan Meguire

On July 26, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind and Water Power Technologies Oce released its Hydropower Vision report, subtitled “A New Chapter for American’s 1st Renewable Electricity Source.” Noting that the factors that led to hydropower development in the 20th century are dierent than the opportunities and challenges the industry faces today, the report looks at the future of the U.S. hydropower sector with a focus on technological advances, increased energy market value, and environmental sustainability.

“The Hydropower Vision report fundamentally hits the reset button for our industry by ushering in a new way of thinking about hydropower, while fracturing misconceptions that we don’t have room to grow sustainably,” the National Hydropower Association said.

In preparing the report, the DOE consulted with more than 150 organizations, including utilities; environmental organizations; developers; equipment manufacturers; state, local, and federal agencies; research institutions; and more. The initiative had four primary goals:

1. Characterize the current state of hydropower in the U.S.; 2. Identify ways for hydropower to maintain and expand its contributions to the electricity and water needs of the nation; 3. Assess how existing and potential new hydropower projects can minimize adverse eects, reduce carbon emissions, and contribute to stewardship of waterways and watershed; and 4. Develop a roadmap identifying stakeholder actions to support on-going and potential expansion of hydropower facilities. The report found that U.S. hydropower could grow from 101 gigawatts (GW) of combined generating and storage capacity to nearly 150 GW by 2050 – with more than half the growth realized by 2030. Potential growth could come from 13 GW of new generation (including upgrades to existing plants, adding power at existing dams and canals, and “limited development” of new stream- reaches) and 36 GW of new pumped storage capacity. With this level of growth, the DOE projected a savings by 2050 of $209 billion from avoided GHG emissions, of which $185 billion would be attributable to operation of existing hydropower facilities. Other benets include over 195,000

https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/legislative/ 6/10 8/15/2016 Legislative Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association hydropower-related jobs across the nation and $58 billion in savings in avoided mortality, morbidity, and economic damages from cumulative reductions in air pollutant emissions over the same period.

The analysis is aimed at making a case for a range of public- and private- sector stakeholders on the existing and long-term benets of hydropower, and the collaborative action needed to realize its full potential. The roadmap identies 64 actions for stakeholder consideration, classied into ve areas: Technology Advancement; Sustainable Development and Operation; Enhanced Revenue and Market Structures; Regulatory Process Optimization; and Enhanced Collaboration, Education, and Outreach.

White House announces commitments to accelerate safe drone use

Update provided by Morgan Meguire

On August 2, the White House Oce of Science and Technology Policy announced new steps, sustained by public and private support, to promote the safe integration and innovative adoption of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) across the National Airspace System, including air navigation and air trac control facilities, airports, and technology.

Key actions include:

$35 million in research funding by the National Science Foundation over the next ve years to accelerate understanding of how to intelligently and eectively design, control, and apply UAS to benecial applications. This will include areas such as monitoring and inspection of physical infrastructure, smart disaster response, agricultural monitoring, the study of severe storms, and more; A broad range of actions by the Department of the Interior (DOI) to use UAS to support search and rescue operations, augment manned aircraft operations, and improve government processes around technological adoption. The DOI will share near-real-time re location information with the public by July 2017, as part of a multi-faceted eort to prevent unauthorized drone incursions over active wildres; A $5 million down payment by the state of New York to support the growth of the emerging unmanned aircraft systems industry across the state; and A collective commitment by UAS industry associations to implement a broad educational eort around privacy best practices for users of UAS technology, and other private-sector commitments to support UAS technologies.

The policy builds on the Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration’s “Small UAS” rule announced in June, which provides national guidelines for the operation of non-recreational unmanned aircraft under 55 pounds. https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/legislative/ 7/10 8/15/2016 Legislative Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association

Tax Foundation releases report critical of municipal bonds

Update provided by Morgan Meguire

On July 16, the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C., non-partisan think tank often critical of tax breaks, released a report titled “Reexamining the Tax-Exemption on Municipal Bond Interest.” Key ndings note that interest on state and local bonds was excluded from the federal income tax in 1913 based on the constitutionality of taxing the borrowing power of state and local governments, a logic the report says is no longer applicable.

The report also says the tax exemption causes municipalities to “overinvest” in infrastructure, delivers larger benets for taxpayers in higher income brackets, and, most signicantly, is inecient. “For every dollar that the federal government forgoes due to the provision, state and local governments receive less than a dollar in lower borrowing costs; the remainder goes largely to high-income households,” the report says.

George Friedlander from Citi Research refuted the Tax Foundation report in an article titled “Good News and Bad News in Policy Agenda for Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds.” The report contains “aws, omissions, and potential inaccuracies in the piece itself,” he said.

Friedlander strongly disagrees with the Tax Foundation’s conclusion that the tax exemption risks overfunding state and local projects. “This, in an environment where use of the tax exemption for new projects has fallen by almost exactly half over the past ve years versus the 10 before that,” the article said. “In reality, even in this environment of remarkably low borrowing costs, a vast number of needed projects simply aren’t being funded.”

A recent Brookings Institute report, cited in Friedlander’s piece, concludes that there is a growing nexus between local decision making and the merits of tax-exempt nancing. “This surge of innovative local action, combined with the paralysis at higher levels of government, has created a new dynamic in national problem solving,” with cities as the primary engines of social and economic progress.

In response to the argument that municipal bonds are not fair or equitable, Friedlander says, “if a large portion of the benet of the subsidy goes to users of government projects, as opposed to investors, then in our view the subsidy tends to be quite fair and equitable, especially when compared to direct subsidization of projects such as that which occurred under ARRA after the Financial Crisis.”

Friedlander also highlighted the Democratic Presidential Platform’s inclusion of a section entitled “Building 21st Century Infrastructure,” which focuses on the country’s infrastructure backlogs “as a way to enhance the economy and put people to work.” The platform supports the creation of a national infrastructure bank, permanent Build America Bonds (BABs), and the continuation of the tax exemption for municipal bonds.

https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/legislative/ 8/10 8/15/2016 Legislative Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association N.Y. approves clean energy standard with 50-percent renewable mandate, subsidies for nuclear and renewables

Update provided by Morgan Meguire

On August 1, the New York State Public Service Commission (NYSPSC) unanimously approved a clean energy standard (CES) that requires 50 percent of the state’s electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030. The plan has an aggressive phase-in schedule and guarantees income for three struggling upstate nuclear power plants to keep them from closing.

In the initial phase of the plan, utilities and other energy suppliers will be required to procure and phase-in new renewable power resources, starting with 26.31 percent of the state’s total electricity load in 2017 and growing to 30.54 percent of the statewide total in 2021. The Commission stated that the CES would add less than $2 a month to the average residential customer’s bill.

In order to maintain the zero-carbon emission benets of the three upstate nuclear plants, the standard would direct $965 million to the plants over the rst two years. The payments are based on a formula that incorporates expected power costs and the social cost for carbon that federal government agencies use in rulemaking.

The vote will likely have an immediate impact on the operators of the three nuclear plants included in the deal. Entergy announced last year that it plans to close the Fitzpatrick plant and Exelon recently agreed to purchase the plant if the nuclear subsidies were approved.

Personnel: NEI ousts two; Clark, Edwards, Chapman move on; E&C hires Ivanauskas

Update provided by Morgan Meguire

On August 4, the Nuclear Energy Institute announced the departure of two long-time senior staers, Alex Flint and Scott Peterson, in an apparent organizational shakeup. The group’s president, Marv Fertel, previously announced his retirement, eective at the end of 2016.

The same day, FERC Commissioner Tony Clark, who in January said he would not seek a second term, announced that the Commission’s September meeting will be his last. Clark had been serving in an expired term since June. The departure will leave the Commission with only three members, the bare minimum needed to conduct business, for the rst time in recent memory. Should a single commissioner recuse himself from a matter, the Commission would not be able to act on it. https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/legislative/ 9/10 8/15/2016 Legislative Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association On July 29, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced its general manager, Marcie Edwards, will retire after 2.5 years of service. Spokeswoman Vicki Curry stated that while Edwards is “interested in retiring,” an ocial date has not been set. She will remain in her post until at least the end of August, but Curry would not conrm whether Edwards would remain through the end of the year.

Separately, Kyle Chapman of Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D–Calif.) oce let colleagues know he was moving to the DOE’s Congressional Aairs oce to nish out the remainder of the Obama Administration’s term.

In addition, the House of Energy and Commerce Committee announced it had hired Robert Ivanauskas as counsel for the majority, a post previously held by Patrick Currier. Ivanauskas formerly staed Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) member Phil Moeller, and most recently worked at FERC’s Oce of Infrastructure Security.

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PNGC Power names Scott Russell as vice president of Transmission & Contracts

PNGC Power, a Portland-based generation and transmission cooperative, has named Scott Russell as vice president of Transmission and Contracts. In this role, Russell will be responsible for overseeing PNGC Power’s transmission agreements for all of PNGC Power’s members, 15 Northwest electric distribution cooperative utilities with service territory in seven western states. Russell will also represent PNGC Power members’ interest in regional transmission issues.

“Scott comes to PNGC with a proven track record,” said PNGC Power President and CEO Beth Looney. “He has the experience and background we were looking for in this highly demanding position.”

“I am very excited to join Beth and her experienced management team,” Russell said. “I look forward to representing the member cooperatives’ interests on all transmission issues to ensure that cost-eective power continues to ow to their service territories.”

Russell joined the PNGC Power team on August 1, 2016. Previously he worked for Portland General Electric in various capacities including nancial analysis, corporate planning, and contract negotiation. Russell received both his Bachelor of Science in economics and his Master of Science in economics from Oregon State University.

Chelan’s Suzanne Grassell honored as an inuential woman in hydropower https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/public-power/ 1/8 8/15/2016 Public Power Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association Suzanne Grassell, Government Aairs Program manager at Chelan PUD (Wenatchee, Wash.), has been named one of 10 Women with Hydro Vision for 2016. Grassell, a 14-year PUD employee, was honored for her work in the policy and regulation arena.

The award honors “the most inuential women in the hydropower industry,” according to HydroWorld.com, a member of PennWell Hydro Group that sponsors the awards. She received the award last month at the international HydroVision conference in Minneapolis.

As a member of the public power community, Grassell said her goal is to promote hydropower as a premier, multi-purpose, renewable resource. Her focus in working with agencies and organizations is to make sure the carbon-free energy and grid services hydropower provides are recognized.

“I view myself as having ‘grown up’ in the hydropower industry, and I’ve had the benet of working with and learning from so many welcoming, innovative people willing to dedicate their time to promoting hydropower,” she said. “I am dedicated to this industry and to hydropower.”

Je Smith, District Services managing director, said her insight serves PUD customer-owners in many ways. “Her intellect, her knowledge, political connections, reputation, and boundless energy are a huge benet to the District,” Smith said. “She also is very much a respected industry authority in hydropower matters.”

Grassell joined Chelan PUD in 2002 as a member of the hydropower licensing team that successfully secured new federal licenses for the Lake Chelan and Rocky Reach hydro projects. She moved to Chelan PUD’s External Aairs group in 2007.

She has served on the boards of the National Hydropower Association (NHA) and Northwest Hydroelectric Association, where she was president in 2006. She played a key role as NHA developed comments on the federal Clean Power Plan and was on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydro Visioning Markets Task Force.

“I strongly believe we need to work together to promote hydropower as the premier energy resource and resist policies that discriminate against it in the market place,” Grassell said.

Refunding of bonds saves Clallam PUD over $800,000

The Clallam County PUD (Carlsborg, Wash.) was recently able to secure a cash ow savings of $808,520 over the next 12 years through the refunding of 2008 Electric Revenue Bonds.

Beau Brown, PUD treasurer /controller, said, “We were able to refund the Series 2008 Electric Revenue Bonds (ERB) at lower interest rates, which in turn helped us realize a signicant cash ow savings.” https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/public-power/ 2/8 8/15/2016 Public Power Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association The bond provisions of the Series 2008 allowed for the refunding, and with lower interest rates the decision to refund was clear. PUD General Manager Doug Nass said, “Commissioners and sta take great care in the management of public monies, so with the opportunity to refund bonds that results in a savings like this it only made sense to do so.”

The Series 2008 ERB outstanding were $8,570,000 and are being refunded with a Series 2016 ERB issuance in the amount of $8,080,000. The cash ow savings to the District is $808,520 (or $770,201 when considering the time value of money) over the next 12 years. The refunding of the Series 2008 bonds does not impact the nal principal payment date, which remains due in 2028.

The refunding of bonds also ts well within the PUD’s mission of “Providing reliable, ecient, safe, and low- cost utility services in a nancially and environmentally responsible manner.”

Columbia River PUD introduces cooling program for lowincome households

Families that meet income requirements in Columbia River PUD’s service territory now have relief available to them for their summer cooling bills.

Oregon was recently named a cooling state, which gives the state additional federal dollars for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP); Community Action Team in St. Helens has funds available for qualifying families to help with their electric bills this summer.

The program works essentially the same way as the LIHEAP heating program. However, because this is for cooling, the program works strictly for electric bills (not gas). Families using an air conditioner, fan, or other electric cooling element are eligible for assistance. The cooling assistance is separate from crisis assistance, meaning that any family who meets income requirements is eligible to participate. Assistance amounts vary based on a family’s income over the past 30 days.

The program was introduced as a Federal Pilot Program this year because of warming temperatures in the state of Oregon the past few years. Warmer winter temperatures resulted in leftover funds from the LIHEAP heating program. Those funds have been reallocated for the cooling program.

Chelan County to breathe easier with PUD biofuel switch for utility eet

https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/public-power/ 3/8 8/15/2016 Public Power Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association Several months of testing using 20,000 gallons of fuel made from vegetable and animal fats showed no impact on performance and may lead Chelan County PUD (Wenatchee, Wash.) to switch its main fuel source for line trucks and other equipment to “renewable” diesel.

Craig Weddle, Supply Chain and Fleet manager, told commissioners last week that the potential move this fall would cut the utility’s carbon emissions from its diesel-powered equipment by two-thirds– or 2.3 million pounds – every year.

Advances in rening the renewable diesel – processed without introducing oxygen-like traditional biodiesel – means it can run in diesel engines without blending and oers even greater reductions in carbon emissions than biodiesel does while minimizing problems operating in cold temperatures and separating during storage, he said.

PUD line crews also mentioned the lack of fumes from idling trucks as another benet.

The potential move to renewable diesel could put Chelan PUD nearly two years ahead of state mandates that all publicly owned vehicles and equipment (with a few exceptions) must run on biofuel or electricity by June 2018.

The City of Wenatchee and Fire Districts 1 and 3, which use PUD fuel stations for their vehicles, would be able to make the switch, too, Weddle said.

Renewable diesel right now costs a little more – at least until U.S.-produced supply catches up with demand – Weddle said. The added cost is mostly in transporting the fuel from the closest import location in Portland.

The cost is currently estimated at less than 1.5 percent of the yearly eet operating and maintenance budget, or about $22,000 to $62,000 a year.

A number of other Northwest utilities and public agencies already are using, or transitioning to, renewable diesel. California state agencies, the cities of Oakland and San Francisco, and United Parcel Service also are using it, Weddle said.

There are concerns about losing rain forests in southeast Asia due to the planting of palms for oil to make renewable diesel, he noted, yet increased domestic production and eorts to use other varieties of feedstock could help resolve this issue over time as the biofuel industry looks for additional resources and increased domestic production to bring down fuel costs and damage to rain forests.

EPUD awards ve 2016 EmPOWERing scholarships

https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/public-power/ 4/8 8/15/2016 Public Power Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association The Emerald People’s Utility District (Eugene, Ore.) Board of Directors recognized ve recipients of the 2016 EmPOWERing scholarships at its June board meeting.

The scholarships are awarded to individuals interested in pursuing a rewarding career in the utility industry. They are available to high school seniors and adults interested in pursuing second-career training in the utility industry.

“These awards are investments in our communities. Winners have demonstrated their academic success and a commitment to their community. Achievements include learning multiple languages, raising funds for a local hospital, and participating in school sports or student government. We are pleased to support them as they continue their educational journey,” said Emerald Board President Katherine Schacht.

The recipients and their families attended Emerald’s June 28 board meeting to accept the $1,250 award and celebrate their accomplishments.

Emerald PUD has oered annual scholarship opportunities to its customer-owners and their family members since 1990.

OPALCO members can take advantage of energy eciency rebates while the sun is shining

Summer is a great time to take on eciency projects and OPALCO (Eastsound, Wash.) rebates for appliances (heat pump water heaters, clothes washers) and heat pumps (ductless and ducted) are still available. Rebate funding is expected to run out by September and additional funding may not be available until 2017.

OPALCO’s rebate program, funded by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), has been very successful with more than $2 million paid out to members since 2008. In fact, OPALCO members have been such robust adopters of energy eciency measures and rebates that OPALCO has nearly spent its biennial allotment from BPA – and additional rebate funds that were garner from other co-ops who cannot use their full allotments.

In anticipation of this shortage, OPALCO’s Energy Savings sta put a temporary hold on larger projects and weatherization rebates (windows, insulation, duct sealing) last fall in order to make the remaining funds last as long as possible.

https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/public-power/ 5/8 8/15/2016 Public Power Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association OPALCO leadership have discussed nding other sources to fund the continued commitment to energy eciency and conservation. In the fall of 2015, OPALCO surveyed the membership about using rates to self- fund energy eciency rebates until the next allotment of BPA funding is available. Of the 1,623 members completing the survey, more than 78 percent preferred to put energy eciency and conservation on hold during a period while funding from BPA is unavailable; only about 20 percent of those surveyed were in favor of raising rates to incentivize individual members for energy eciency.

Columbia River PUD hosts blood drive

Columbia River People’s Utility District will host an American Red Cross Blood Drive on Friday, August 19, 2016, from 1 to 6 p.m. The drive will be held in the Community Room at the PUD’s oce in Deer Island, Ore.

To make an appointment, call the American Red Cross at (800) RED-CROSS or schedule online at www.redcrossblood.org using the sponsor code SaintHelens.

Donating blood is one of the simplest things a person can do to help save a patient’s life. For the hour it takes to give blood, there could be a whole community of people thankful for another birthday given to their loved one. Blood products are routinely transfused to those with cancer and other diseases, premature babies, organ transplant recipients, and accident and trauma victims. Volunteer blood donors are the primary source of blood used for transfusions, and the blood must be there before it is needed in order to save lives.

Any healthy person age 18 or older (or ages 16 and 17 with signed parental consent) and weighing at least 110 pounds may be eligible to donate blood. Valid identication is required for all blood donations.

Blood donors can now save time at their next donation by using RapidPass to complete their pre-donation reading and health history questionnaire online, on the day of their donation, prior to arriving at the blood drive. To get started and learn more, visit www.redcrossblood.org/RapidPass and follow the instructions on the site.

Apple Can Sell Power as Tech Giants Boost Investments

Source: Bloomberg 8/8/16: By: Jonathan Crawford

Apple Inc., which is spending $850 million on a 130-megawatt solar farm near San Francisco over 25 years, can begin selling power into wholesale markets in the latest foray by a technology company into the energy business.

Apple’s subsidiary Apple Energy LLC may sell energy, capacity and other services needed to maintain reliable power, according to an order by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Thursday. In granting approval, https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/public-power/ 6/8 8/15/2016 Public Power Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association the commission determined the company did not raise the risk of being able to unfairly hike up power prices.

The iPhone maker is among a group of companies investing in energy projects in a bid to tackle global warming and cut electric bills. Google, Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. are backing wind turbines and solar farms to power their operations and lower their carbon footprint.

“When you own power production facilities then you would typically want to have authority to sell power,” Kit Konolige, an analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence, said by phone Thursday. “It is indicative of a number of related trends that are lowering demand for power produced by utilities.”

Apple entered into an agreement last year with First Solar Inc. to buy power from the California solar farm in what was at the time the largest-ever solar procurement for a company that isn’t a utility, according to data compiled by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Apple also owns 20 megawatts of generation in the Nevada Power Company service area and 50 megawatts in the Salt River Project service area in Arizona, according to the FERC order. All of Apple’s data centers are now powered by renewables.

Data Centers

A spokesman for Apple declined to comment. Shares rose 0.6 percent to $105.86 at 2:07 p.m. in New York.

Google, the biggest corporate buyer of clean energy in the U.S., announced in June it agreed to purchase energy from wind farms under development in Norway and Sweden to power its data centers in Europe. The company has a goal of running all operations on clean energy.

Apple may begin wholesale power sales Saturday. Google gained similar rights in 2010.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-04/apple-can-now-sell-power-as-tech-giants- boost-energy-investments

Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear plant, performs well (Opinion)

Editorial by Brent Ridge, vice president and chief nancial ocer of Energy Northwest, The Oregonian (08/03/2016)

Three years ago, economist Robert McCullough produced a report for an anti-nuclear energy group calling for closure of Washington’s nuclear power plant. His arguments were assessed and dismissed by energy experts at the Public Power Council, which represents the interests of Pacic Northwest utility customers.

https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/public-power/ 7/8 8/15/2016 Public Power Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association Those same arguments resurfaced recently (“Close the expensive Columbia Generating Station,” July 7). Three weeks ago, I summarized the gaps in his approach (“Economist’s attack on Columbia Generating Station got it wrong,” July 16), and he essentially responded with more of the same to make sure we got his original point (“Balancing an aging Hanford nuke plant against cheaper rm market power purchases,” July 22).

Mr. McCullough continues to make false comparisons between cost of power from Columbia and what he portrays as the value of wholesale power. He last wrote that futures contracts for power delivered to the Mid-Columbia hub are traded on two exchanges (only one was correctly identied), then quoted futures contract prices ve years from now as accurate values for wholesale power.

He’s either unaware, or failed to mention, that the volume of power actually traded on the Intercontinental Exchange specically for Mid-Columbia futures contracts ve years out is extremely small — only 49 average megawatts per hour of the more than 20,000 average megawatts per hour required in the Northwest. The futures contract he uses as the basis for his value arguments, therefore, represents less than one-fourth of 1 percent of the average hourly power needs of the Pacic Northwest. It’s also a small fraction of the average of more than 1,000 megawatts an hour that Columbia sends to the grid.

So why then does he present the data in this way? Because that is precisely what his anti-nuclear employers want to hear. It’s also why he writes: “The plant often does not deliver its promised generation due to unplanned outages or delayed refueling schedules.” In reality, Columbia ran at 92 percent of capacity the past four years, which includes two refueling outage years (higher than the national average for all 100 nuclear plants). In scal 2016 (ended June 30), Columbia produced its second highest generation total ever. Not bad for an “aging” power plant and a credit to the skilled men and women who continuously improve plant performance.

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HDR employee uses CPR skills to save a life

On a warm May evening, Dustin McBride, an environmental scientist in HDR’s Dallas oce, was driving home after work when he approached the scene of a car accident in Grapevine, Texas. McBride and a few other commuters immediately pulled over to assist the victim who had been thrown from his truck. As he surveyed the scene and approached the man who was lying face down on the ground, he carefully rolled the victim over to check his pulse and asked someone to call 911. A woman who had also pulled over to help began performing CPR on the unconscious man, but McBride swiftly took over as her chest compressions were not strong enough for the victim.

Due to the man’s condition, McBride recognized he was limited to performing hands-only CPR. After eight rounds of chest compressions, the victim began breathing on his own, but was unable to speak due to other injuries. McBride and others waited with the now-conscious man until rst responders arrived, which was nearly 15 minutes after the initial 911 call. The following day, a police ocer called McBride to report the man is expected to survive thanks to his life-saving CPR skills.

McBride has been CPR-certied for several years, but this was the rst occasion he used his training to save a life. CPR, especially if performed in the rst few minutes of cardiac arrest, can double or triple a person’s chance of survival. Since 70 percent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen to loved ones in homes, where the other 30 percent could include a car accident situation like the one McBride encountered, CPR is a valuable skill to have in case of emergencies. For these reasons Dustin shares his story. He urges his colleagues to contact their local safety coordinator or contact HDR University for more information on First Aid/CPR/AED training.

https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/associate-member/ 1/4 8/15/2016 Associate Member Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association HDR has partnered with clients to shape communities and push the boundaries of what’s possible since 1917. They specialize in engineering, architecture, environmental, and construction services. With nearly 10,000 employees in more than 225 locations around the world, they think global and act local. For more information, visit www.HDRinc.com.

Novinium hires Dean Stone as Canadian regional sales manager

Novinium® is pleased to name Dean Stone as the new regional sales manager for Canada. He will be responsible for direct sales of Novinium’s cable rehabilitation products and services to the utility markets. Stone joins Novinium with more than 25 years of sales and management experience across many industries, including utilities, lighting, material handling, and waste management.

“We are excited to welcome Dean to our sales team. His experience in identifying growth opportunities across Canada and initiating strong business alliances will be a great resource for Novinium and our customers,” said Chris Sams, Novinium VP of Sales & Marketing.

Stone can be reached at [email protected] or by calling (905) 449–9416.

Novinium’s patented injection process rejuvenates and extends the reliable life of cable up to 40 years. Further information is available at www.novinium.com.

Ed Wilson joins D’Ewart Representatives L.L.C.

D’Ewart Representatives L.L.C. has announced that Ed Wilson has joined the company. Wilson will be directly involved with selling to key accounts as well as managing the operations. He will report to Pete and Doug D’Ewart, and will be based in the Bothell, Wash., oce.

Stone graduated from the University of New Mexico’s Navy ROTC program and worked for ve years as an engineering ocer, beginning his career on the USS Bradley. He earned his M.B.A. at the University of New Mexico and then worked as a contracts manager at the Department of Energy Laboratory (Sandia Labs). He has also worked as the operations director for BOXLIGHT Corporation; the material purchasing supervisor at Puget Sound Energy; and, most recently, as the manager for combined cycle gas turbine, piping, pumps, and auxiliary cooling contracts for SNC Lavilin.

https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/associate-member/ 2/4 8/15/2016 Associate Member Announcements | Northwest Public Power Association “Ed’s enormous talent, energy, and enthusiasm, together with his already deep experience as a leader is a great addition to our team,” said Pete D’Ewart. “Please join us in welcoming Ed Wilson to D’Ewart Representatives L.L.C.”

D’Ewart Representatives L.L.C. is a non-stocking manufacturers’ representative agency serving end-users that have large communications and electrical power needs. For more information, visit www.dewart.com.

Luminaire longevity for AreaMax LED in marine environments

Evluma announced a new anti-corrosion, coastal package for its family of AreaMax LED luminaires for street and area lighting. The new coastal option will include a new cast aluminum alloy, an anti-corrosion chromate coating plus an aluminum access panel, a stainless steel tenon clamp, and all stainless steel fasteners. The anti-corrosive materials, metals, and coatings have been specically selected by Evluma engineers for their high durability in harsh salt-spray environments.

The new coastal package is a requirement for the 10-year warranty if the luminaire is located within 2,000 feet of any salt water body.

“Salt environments are notoriously tough on coastal lighting, requiring materials specically chosen to withstand exposure to the elements,” said Evluma VP of Sales and Marketing David Tanonis.

Evluma recently conducted an extended test of their non-coastal and earlier coastal LED lighting package in a salt-spray environment on the southern coast of Oregon.

“Based on our results, we enhanced the coastal option AreaMax with premium, anti-corrosive materials that will guarantee our 10-year warranty in these locations,” said Tanonis.

Evluma recommends the use of the at, full-cut o lens (U0) and the AreaMax Light Trespass shield, made of stainless steel, for coastal areas where light pollution may be of particular concern. The AreaMax is now available in CCT ranging 3000K to 5000K, with the 3000K option released in July 2016. The coastal option is available for order immediately with an estimated October 2016 delivery.

Formed in 2008, Evluma is committed to developing aordable, long-lasting, and environmentally low-impact LED lighting solutions that fundamentally change the landscape of the outdoor utility lighting market. For more information, visit www.evluma.com.

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2016 Upcoming Industry Meetings

Send your 2016 meeting dates and locations to Debbie at [email protected].

August 2016

9-10 – Intermountain Energy Summit, Idaho Falls, ID

September 2016

1 – PPC Meeting, Sheraton Portland Airport, Portland, OR https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/events-calendar/ 1/3 8/15/2016 Calendar of Events | Northwest Public Power Association 19-20 – National Hydropower Association Alaska Meeting, Cordova, AK

21-23 – APA Annual Membership Meeting, Cordova, AK

October 2016

4-6 – Regions 7 & 9 Meeting, Reno, NV

6 – PPC Meeting, Sheraton Portland Airport, Portland, OR

25-27 – 25th Annual RCS National Convention, Springeld, MO – EPA will be calling for comments on specic changes/additions to the PCB rules by convention time – Click here to nd out more

November 2016

3 – PPC Meeting, Sheraton Portland Airport, Portland, OR

29-Dec. 1 – ORECA Annual Meeting, Location TBA, OR

December 2016

8 – PPC Annual Meeting, Sheraton Portland Airport, Portland, OR – 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

January 2017

10-11 – ICUA Members Conference, Boise, ID

February 2017

23-Mar. 3 – NRECA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

27-Mar. 1 – APPA Legislative Rally, Washington, D.C., Grand Hyatt Washington

March 2017

28-30 – California Municipal Utilities Assoc. Annual Meeting, Carlsbad, CA, Sheraton Carlsbad Resort & Spa

April 2017

9-14 – NWPPA Engineering & Operations Conference & Trade Show, Reno, NV

23-28 – NWPPA/NCPA Legislative Rally, Washington, D.C.

23-28 – NRECA Legislative Conference, Washington, D.C. https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/events-calendar/ 2/3 8/15/2016 Calendar of Events | Northwest Public Power Association May 2017

21-24 – NWPPA Annual Meeting, Sunriver, OR

June 2017

16-21 – APPA National Conference, Orlando, FL

20-21 – NWPPA/NCPA Legislative Rally, Washington, D.C.

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Submit an RFP or RFQ

NWPPA oers its members the opportunity to post RFPs and RFQs on our website at no charge. For more information or questions, contact Debbie K. at [email protected] or complete the form below.

 Submit an RFP/RFQ for publication on NWPPA.ORG

CURRENT RFPs/RFQs

RFP No. 63 - REQUEST FOR A REPORT ON THIRD PARTY ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS

Oered by: Silicon Valley Power

Response deadline: September 23, 2016

4:00 p.m. PDT

Posted on: August 10, 2016

The City of Santa Clara’s Electric Department, doing business as Silicon Valley Power (SVP), wishes to obtain proposals for third party energy eciency programs in Santa Clara. These will be in addition to existing residential, commercial, and industrial programs. Any proposals accepted by the City must meet kilowatt hour based energy eciency goals. Any chosen program managers will be required to report to the utility on progress toward these goals on a monthly basis with necessary measurement and verication results, as well as submit a nal report on eectiveness of the programs, lessons learned, and total energy saved by customer and customer classication.

Utility and Energy Eciency Programs

Santa Clara's municipal electric utility (dba Silicon Valley Power) is a not-for-prot enterprise of the City of Santa Clara, and was established in 1896. Silicon Valley Power owns power generation facilities, has investments in joint ventures that produce electric power, and trades power on the open market. These eorts are directed toward ensuring its retail customers, the citizens, organizations and business of the City of Santa Clara a highly reliable source of electric power at competitive, stable rates.

https://www.nwppa.org/rfprfq/ 1/5 8/15/2016 Submit an RFP or RFQ | Northwest Public Power Association SVP serves over 53,000 customers. The City of Santa Clara is located in the San Francisco Bay Area and has a population of 122,192. At the end of 2015, the utility had 53,658 meters with a peak demand of 523.7 megawatts. 45,139 of these customers were residential, but only 7.2% of power sales were to residents. Approximately 92.3% of sales went to commercial and industrial customers.

SVP’s Public Benet Programs (PBC) are separated into residential and business programs, with the majority of funding toward the business sector. This is due to the fact that the programs are required by City Council policy to be spent in the customer class from which the funding is received. This results in program funding less than 10% from the residential class. Total PBC funds are about $7 million per year. Residential programs include rate assistance for low-income customers, energy eciency rebates (ceiling fans, electric heat pump water heaters, clothes dryers, pool pumps, and a mid-stream LED lighting incentive), solar electric installations, energy audits, and programs for schools and libraries. Business programs include energy audits, installation management for small companies, and rebates for a wide variety of equipment (lighting, air conditioning systems, chillers, VFDs, controls, new construction, photovoltaic systems and customized installations).

Because the vast majority of SVP’s energy eciency programs come from its large commercial and industrial customers, the greatest percentage of savings from programs are calculated based on actual metered pre- and post-savings. These large, unique projects also result in “lumpy” savings levels, depending on the projects being completed at customer sites and their implementation budgets in any give year. Even though SVP has a full suite of programs (see www.siliconvalleypower.com for a full program listing and description), it wishes to enhance its programs and achieve more kilowatt hours in savings. The current Request for Proposals (RFP) is meant to enhance these programs with third party initiatives.

RFP Procedure

Contact Procedure: All correspondence or contact with SVP, including questions about this RFP, shall be submitted in writing through email to SVP’s ocial contact email address of “[email protected]”. No interpretation, revision, or other communication regarding this RFP is valid unless received at SVP’s ocial contact email address. All questions regarding the RFP document and process must be submitted in writing to the SVP ocial contact email address of “[email protected]” no later than 11:00 a.m. Pacic Daylight Time on September 2, 2016. SVP will reply to all questions no later than 5:00 p.m. Pacic Daylight Time on September 7, 2016. Note to all Contractors: No telephone inquiries or faxed questions will be accepted. SVP will provide answers to all questions submitted by Contractors according to the procedures described in this section, and which are received by SVP prior to 11:00 a.m. Pacic Daylight Time (PDT), on September 2, 2016. Questions submitted after this time will not be accepted.

All Contractors must submit an Intent to Bid Form (Attachment F to this RFP) no later than 5:00p.m. Wednesday, August 31, 2016 to Mary Medeiros McEnroe via Fax at (408) 244- 2990. https://www.nwppa.org/rfprfq/ 2/5 8/15/2016 Submit an RFP or RFQ | Northwest Public Power Association Proposal Submission and Delivery Address: All proposal packages must bedelivered to the address below by 4:00 p.m., PDT, on September 23, 2016. Proposals which are faxed or emailed will not be accepted. To ensure fairness, proposals received after this deadline will not be accepted and will be returned unopened. SVP will date stamp and log in the proposal packages as they are received.

For all deliveries:

Silicon Valley Power, City of Santa Clara ATTN: Mary Medeiros McEnroe 881 Martin Avenue Santa Clara, CA 95050 Telephone: (408) 615-6646 Due to the possibility of delays, SVP recommends an expedited delivery service.

Click here to view a full PDF of RFP

BID NO. 16-55 - Supply of Underground Cable Puller and Chassis Up-Fitting

Oered by: Chelan PUD

Response deadline: August 23, 2016

2:30 pm, Pacic Time

Posted on: August 9, 2016

Sealed bids will be received by Public Utility District No. 1 of Chelan County, Washington, at the oce of the District, Attention: Mark Belton, Procurement and Contract Services, 327B North Wenatchee Avenue, Wenatchee, Washington, 98801, until 2:30 pm, Pacic Time, Tuesday, August 23, 2016, for supplying all labor, materials, tools, equipment, facilities, and all other appliances and supplies as specied, and performing all work required in accordance with the Contract Documents.

The Contract Documents, in whole or in part, may be available in read-only format at http://clio.chelanpud.org/cf/PCS_Bids. Prospective Bidders may obtain Contract Documents in electronic format from the Procurement and Contract Services Department. Requests are accepted online at http://clio.chelanpud.org/cf/PCS_Bids, or in writing to P.O. Box 1231, Wenatchee, WA 98807, or by telephone at (509) 661-4479 or (888) 663-8121, extension 4479, or may be viewed in person at 327B N. Wenatchee Avenue, Wenatchee, Washington. The District makes every eort to insure the completeness of the electronic le. If there are any questions, please contact the Procurement and Contract Services department at the number stated above.

No pre-bid site inspection has been scheduled for this Project. If you have questions, please contact the Project Manager below: https://www.nwppa.org/rfprfq/ 3/5 8/15/2016 Submit an RFP or RFQ | Northwest Public Power Association Public Utility District No. 1 of Chelan County P.O. Box 1231, 327 North Wenatchee Avenue Wenatchee, Washington 98807 Telephone: (509) 661-4318, or toll free at (888) 663-8121, extension 4318. Attention: Michael Shrader

The District reserves the right to reject any and/or all bids, to waive informalities, and to accept any bid which is in the District's best interests.

NO. 16-35 - Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Software System, Implementation, and Support

Oered by: Chelan PUD

Response deadline: September 12, 2016

2:30 p.m., Pacic Daylight Time

Posted on: August 2, 2016

Proposals will be received by Public Utility District No. 1 of Chelan County, Washington ("District"), at the oce of the District's Contract Specialist, Procurement and Contract Services, Attention: Alexandria Smith, 327 North Wenatchee Avenue, Wenatchee, Washington 98801, until 2:30 p.m., Pacic Daylight Time, September 12, 2016, for

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Software System, Implementation, and Support

Interested companies may request the RFP Documents from the Procurement and Contract Services Department. Requests are accepted online at http://clio.chelanpud.org/cf/pcs_bids/index.cfm?event=Current at no charge.

Because of the sensitive nature of the Confidential Information which may be included in this RFP, as a condition for District issuance of the RFP to the Proposers, the Proposer must execute a NonDisclosure Agreement that is available for printing on the District’s website at http://clio.chelanpud.org/cf/pcs_bids/index.cfm?event=Current. The executed NonDisclosure Agreement should be faxed to the District’s Contract Specialist; Alexandria Smith, at fax number (509) 6618113.

The District specically reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals, and to waive informalities, and to accept any Proposal that the District deems to be in the District's best interest.

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Jobs

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Recent job openings within the industry in the last week:

Electrical Helper – Grays Harbor PUD

“Hot” Apprentice Lineman – Franklin PUD

Hydro Electrical Technician – Placer County Water Agency

Internal Auditor – Eugene Water and Electric Board

Operations & Planning Compliance Specialist V R16400 – Portland General Electric

Relay, Control & Meter Technician – Northern Wasco County People’s Utility District

Senior Telecom Engineer – Chelan PUD

Service & Design Project Manager R16443 – Portland General Electric

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Nixon and Agnew receive the Republican Party nomination

August 8, 1968

At the Republican National Convention in Miami, Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew are chosen as the presidential and vice-presidential nominees for the upcoming election. In his speech accepting the nomination, Nixon promised to “bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam” and to inaugurate “an era of negotiations” with leading Communist powers, while restoring “the strength of America so that we shall always negotiate from strength and never from weakness.” The party subsequently adopted a platform on the war that called for “progressive de-Americanization” of the war. Nixon was successful in his campaign bid and once in oce, he instituted a program of “Vietnamization” (the turning over of the war to the South Vietnamese) and U.S. troop withdrawals.

Nixon resigns

August 8, 1974

In an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the rst president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the Watergate aair, Nixon was nally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White House. “By taking this action,” he said in a solemn address from the Oval Oce, “I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.”

Just before noon the next day, Nixon ocially ended his term as the 37th president of the United States. Before departing with his family in a helicopter from the White House lawn, he smiled farewell and https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/this-day-in-history/ 1/4 8/15/2016 This Day In History | Northwest Public Power Association enigmatically raised his arms in a victory or peace salute. The helicopter door was then closed, and the Nixon family began their journey home to San Clemente, California. Minutes later, Vice President Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States in the East Room of the White House. After taking the oath of oce, President Ford spoke to the nation in a television address, declaring, “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” He later pardoned Nixon for any crimes he may have committed while in oce, explaining that he wanted to end the national divisions created by the Watergate scandal.

On June 17, 1972, ve men, including a salaried security coordinator for President Nixon’s reelection committee, were arrested for breaking into and illegally wiretapping the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Washington, D.C., Watergate complex. Soon after, two other former White House aides were implicated in the break-in, but the Nixon administration denied any involvement. Later that year, reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of The Washington Post discovered a higher-echelon conspiracy surrounding the incident, and a political scandal of unprecedented magnitude erupted.

In May 1973, the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, headed by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, began televised proceedings on the rapidly escalating Watergate aair. One week later, Harvard law professor Archibald Cox was sworn in as special Watergate prosecutor. During the Senate hearings, former White House legal counsel John Dean testied that the Watergate break-in had been approved by former Attorney General John Mitchell with the knowledge of White House advisers John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, and that President Nixon had been aware of the cover-up. Meanwhile, Watergate prosecutor Cox and his sta began to uncover widespread evidence of political espionage by the Nixon reelection committee, illegal wiretapping of thousands of citizens by the administration, and contributions to the Republican Party in return for political favors.

In July, the existence of what were to be called the Watergate tapes–ocial recordings of White House conversations between Nixon and his sta–was revealed during the Senate hearings. Cox subpoenaed these tapes, and after three months of delay President Nixon agreed to send summaries of the recordings. Cox rejected the summaries, and Nixon red him. His successor as special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, leveled indictments against several high-ranking administration ocials, including Mitchell and Dean, who were duly convicted.

Public condence in the president rapidly waned, and by the end of July 1974 the House Judiciary Committee had adopted three articles of impeachment against President Nixon: obstruction of justice, abuse of presidential powers, and hindrance of the impeachment process. On July 30, under coercion from the Supreme Court, Nixon nally released the Watergate tapes. On August 5, transcripts of the recordings were released, including a segment in which the president was heard instructing Haldeman to order the FBI to halt the Watergate investigation. Three days later, Nixon announced his resignation.

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On this day in 1988, the Chicago Cubs host the rst night game in the history of Wrigley Field.

The rst-ever night game in professional baseball took place nearly 60 years earlier, on May 2, 1930, when a Des Moines, Iowa, team hosted Wichita for a Western League game. The match-up drew 12,000 people at a time when Des Moines was averaging just 600 fans per game. Evening games soon became popular in the minors: As minor league ball clubs were routinely folding in the midst of the Great Depression, adaptable owners found the innovation a key to staying in business. The major leagues, though, took ve years to catch up to their small-town counterparts.

The rst big league night game took place in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 24, 1935, and drew 25,000 fans. The crowd stood by as President Franklin D. Roosevelt symbolically switched on the lights from Washington, D.C. To capitalize on their new evening fan base, the Reds played a night game that year against every National League team–eight games in total–and despite their lousy record of 68-85, paid attendance rose 117 percent. Over the next 13 seasons, the rest of the major league parks followed suit, with one exception, Wrigley Field, which by 1988 was the second oldest ballpark in use after Boston’s Fenway Park. For 74 seasons, the Cubs played only day games at home. Finally, on August 8, 1988, the Cubs played the Philadelphia Phillies in the park’s rst night game. Ninety-one-year-old Cubs fan Harry Grossman was chosen to turn on the lights. After counting to three, he ipped the switch, and announced “Let there be light.”

Rick Sutclie started the game for the Cubs, and gave up a home run to Phil Bradley of the Phillies on his fourth pitch. The Cubs’ star second baseman Ryne Sandberg answered with a two-run home run in the bottom of the rst inning, and with the Cubs leading in the bottom of the fourth inning 3-1, the game was called due to rain. Because the ve innings needed for the game to be ocial were not completed, Wrigley’s rst night game is ocially recorded as a 6-4 win over the New York Mets on August 9, 1988.

Today, the Cubs are the only major league team that still plays the majority of its home games during the day.

Spike Lee’s rst feature, She’s Gotta Have It, premieres

August 8, 1986

On this day in 1986, actor, writer and director Spike Lee’s rst feature-length movie, She’s Gotta Have It, opens in theaters around the United States. Made on a shoestring budget, She’s Gotta Have It was a comedy about a free-spirited African-American woman in Brooklyn, New York, and her three suitors. The movie launched Lee’s career and established his reputation as an outspoken lmmaker who often tackled

https://www.nwppa.org/ebulletin/this-day-in-history/ 3/4 8/15/2016 This Day In History | Northwest Public Power Association controversial subjects such as sex and race relations. Lee also co-starred in the lm, playing an annoying bike messenger named Mars Blackmon.

Shelton Jackson “Spike” Lee was born March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Morehouse College and received a master’s degree in lm and television from New York University. Following the success of She’s Gotta Have It, he went on to write and direct 1988’sSchool Daze, about fraternity and sorority members at a black college, and 1989’sDo the Right Thing, about racial conicts in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Do the Right Thing earned Lee an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Lee directed a steady stream of lms in the 1990s, including Mo’ Better Blues(1990), in which he co-starred with Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes; Jungle Fever (1991), about a combustive aair between a black man (Snipes) and a white woman (Annabella Sciorra); the biopic Malcolm X (1992), starring Washington in the title role; Clockers (1995), based on the novel by Richard Price; 4 Little Girls(1997), a documentary about the notorious 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary; and Summer of Sam (1999), a thriller based on the infamous 1977 “Son of Sam” serial murders in New York City.

Lee’s more recent directorial eorts include 25th Hour (2002), starring Edward Norton, and Inside Man (2006), starring Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster. In 2006, he produced and directed the documentary miniseries When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, about the devastation wrought on the city of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and the local and federal government’s awed response to it. The lm won three Emmy Awards, including one for Outstanding Directing for Lee.

In addition to his lm work, Lee has had a successful career directing television commercials, perhaps most notably for Nike. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Lee’s Mars Blackmon character became the pitchman for Air Jordan basketball shoes.

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