Projects & Companies
Just the start of something great.
Now over 120 members strong, with more than 75 companies and 9 utilities as members, MCEI is working towards bringing about the realization that the Tri-Cities, WA region
is primed to become the nation's recognized leader in solving energy challenges.
Hydro
Hydropower, hydraulic power or waterpower is power that is derived from the force or energy of moving water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes.
Prior to the development of electric power, hydropower was used for irrigation, and operation of various machines, such as watermills, textile machines, sawmills, dock cranes, and domestic lifts.
In hydrology, hydropower is manifested in the force of the water on the riverbed and banks of a river. It is particularly powerful when the river is in flood.
Bonneville Power Administration
PO Box 968
Richland, WA 99352
www.bpa.gov
US Department of Energy Northwest Power Marketing Agency.
The Bonneville Power Administration's mission as a public service organization is to create and deliver the best value for our customers and constituents as we act in concert with others to assure the Pacific Northwest of:
- An adequate, efficient, economical and reliable power supply;
- A transmission system that is adequate to the task of integrating and transmitting power from federal and non-federal generating units, providing service to BPA's customers, providing interregional interconnections, and maintaining electrical reliability and stability; and
- Mitigation of the Federal Columbia River Power System's impacts on fish and wildlife.
- BPA is committed to cost-based rates, and public and regional preference in its marketing of power. BPA will set its rates as low as possible consistent with sound business principles and the full recovery of all of its costs, including timely repayment of the federal investment in the system.
Energy Northwest
Packwood Lake Hydroelectric Project
http://www.energy-northwest.com/generation/packwood/index.php
Located in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, approximately 20 miles south of Mount Rainier. Power plant structures at the lake are limited to a small diversion and intake structure a short distance downstream from the outlet of Packwood Lake. A five-mile underground pipeline carries the water down the mountain to the powerhouse near the town of Packwood. A unique aspect of the facility is the 1,800-foot drop in elevation, which generates 780 psi of pressure at the turbine. The turbine generator is capable of generating up to 27.5 megawatts of electricity. Since 1964, the project has been operated in harmony with the recreational features of the National Forest and the Goat Rocks Wilderness Area.
Generating capacity: 27.5 megawatts
Capacity factor average: 40 percent
Location: 5 miles east of Packwood, Wash., South of Mount Rainier
Commercial operation: 1964
Location: 5 miles east of Packwood, WA
PNNL
902 Battelle Boulevard
Richland, WA 99352
http://www.pnl.gov/
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is the nation's leader in Smart Grid technology and is at the forefront of thought, leadership and collaboration.
PNNL has conducted environmental studies on the Columbia and Snake River dams going back to 1965. This includes extensive research on migrating salmon.
