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Wind farms get a boost from BPA. (News).(Brief Article)
PORTLAND, OR--The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) announced it plans to adopt a rate proposal designed to encourage development and operation of wind turbines by freeing wind generators from a penalty when they fail to deliver power as scheduled.
BPA imposes a penalty--$100 per megawatt hour--on generators that schedule energy over the transmission grid, and then fail to deliver the same at the designated hour. The penalty is needed because when scheduled energy is not delivered to the grid, the power system gets out of balance, transmission system reliability can be threatened, and BPA must provide power to bring the system ...
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