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Jordan Gale/Oregon Capital Chronicle)The Northwest鈥檚 largest hydropower supplier announced it intends to join a new day-ahead energy market based in Arkansas over one based in California. -
Jenny Kane/APOregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would require certain large energy users, like data centers and cryptocurrency businesses, to pay their share for electricity use.
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California's grid operator issues different types of emergency notifications to consumers and utilities in an effort to prevent rotating power outages and uncontrolled blackouts. -
As a string of attacks on electrical substations unfolded in Oregon and Washington in 2022, the FBI was warning utilities of white supremacists鈥� plots to take down the nation鈥檚 power grid. An investigation by OPB and Washington public media station KUOW reveals the scope of the threat to the Northwest grid. -
Despite expecting 12.5 million electric cars by 2035, California officials insist that the grid can provide enough electricity. But that鈥檚 based on multiple assumptions 鈥� including building solar and wind at almost five times the pace of the past decade 鈥� that may not be realistic.
