Legal Opinion
Portland General Electric Co. v. Bonneville Power Administration
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 3, 2007No. 01-70003, 01-70005, 01-70010, 01-70012, 01-70041PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BYBEE, Circuit Judge:
Petitioners, publicly owned utilities (“PUDs”) operating in the Pacific Northwest, 1 and Intervenor Industrial Customers of Northwest Utilities, challenge the actions taken by the Bonneville Power Administration (“BPA”) in reaching settlement agreements in 2000 with six investor-owned utilities (“IOUs”). While the statutory and factual background in this appeal is quite complicated, the ultimate issue is relatively straightforward: whether BPA’s authority to settle out of power contracts is bound by the power exchange requirements of the Northwest Power Act (“NWPA”), and…
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