California Energy Commission v. Bonneville Power Administration

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

This case involves consolidated challenges to the Bonneville Power Administration’s (“BPA”) Long-Term Intertie Access Policy (“LTIAP”) which allocates access to the Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie, a system of high voltage lines transmitting federal and non-federal power between the two regions. The LTIAP is being attacked on several fronts by parties with diverse and sometimes competing interests. None of the parties with an interest in access to the Intertie is completely satisfied with the policy. Upon the whole record, however, we conclude that the LTIAP…