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February 14, 2025

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)

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BPA Committed to Trump’s Energy Goals, Hairston Says
BPA CEO John Hairston said the agency is committed to President Donald Trump’s goal to “unleash American energy dominance,” while also revealing that about 200 staff have accepted the president’s deferred resignation offer.
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BPA Halts Some Tx Planning Processes Amid Surge of Service Requests
BPA has temporarily paused certain transmission planning processes to consider new reforms in light of “exponential growth” of transmission service requests, staff told stakeholders during a workshop.
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SPP Sets Deadline for Markets+ Funding Agreements

Financial backers of Phase 2 of SPP’s Markets+ have until Feb. 14 to submit executed funding agreements, the RTO said.

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Day-ahead Seams Issues Could Take Years to Resolve, BPA Staff Says
BPA would have to strike several types of agreements, many of which are complex and could take years to implement, to tackle seams that could arise if BPA joins a day-ahead market, agency staff said during a workshop.
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BPA Employees Confront Trump’s ‘Fork in the Road’
Employees of the Bonneville Power Administration received the same buyout offer from the Trump administration as millions of other federal workers — despite the agency's self-funding model.
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BPA Considers Impact of Fees in Day-ahead Market Choice
BPA could face high implementation fees and operating costs under both SPP’s Markets+ and CAISO’s EDAM, but exact amounts are in flux.
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Brattle Study Shows Big Benefits for California in ‘Expanded’ EDAM
California ratepayers would save millions more in a CAISO Extended Day-Ahead Market encompassing nearly all the West than in one that includes only those utilities likely to join the market, according to a new Brattle Group study.
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Chelan PUD Commits to SPP Markets+ Phase 2 Funding
Markets+ notched another in a string of successes when the Chelan County Public Utility District in Washington said it will pay its $1 million to $2 million share of funding for the market’s Phase 2 implementation stage.
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SPP Markets+ Tariff Wins FERC Approval

SPP reached a key milepost in its Western efforts when FERC conditionally approved its tariff for Markets+, a highly anticipated decision likely to ramp up the competition with CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.

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BPA Not Planning Any Major Resource Acquisitions
BPA is not planning to acquire any major energy resources but is taking steps to ensure it’s ready in case those predictions should change, staff said during a presentation of the agency’s 2024 Resource Program.

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