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Hydropower out of Bonneville Dam would be WHOLESALE power and thus not priced in tiers as is RETAIL power.

But as Bill Gore mentioned hydropower can be laundered many times over to jack up the price.

Hey Bill:
Just wondering…how much do you pay per/kilowatt for your power? Is it tiered pricing like good ol’ PG&E. ..or no?
I’ll dig out my latest PG&E bill if I can find one and give you a comparison.

Thanks Wayne. I live in Oregon and my utility is a rural coop, of which I am a member. It is 100% hydropower from the bonneville Power Administration, which is a federal agency. My understanding is that PGE basically siphons BPA power south to CA, marking it up along the way. Also, can the press officially label Buffet an ‘oligarch’? Cause that’s what he is. An american oligarch…

Seriously, what the Hoover Commission was, was a body appointed by former Pres. Harry Truman to recommend administrative changes to the Federal government.

The Little Hoover Commission is enshrine in California law but is really not independent of the governor enough because the appointees can be terminated by the governor at will. Nonetheless, the LHC has taken some courageous actions by openly reprimanding the governor for failing in public accountability about the costs and reliability of green power under the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.

The implementation of the Act’s “Renewable Energy Portfolio” of 33% green power by 2020 ran into trouble staring in 2014 when solar power fades during sunset hours of the day and must be replaced with natural gas fired power. So the state grid operator hastily threw together what is called an “Energy Imbalancing Market” (a bad bureaucratic term meaning rebalancing market not imbalancing market) that buys cheap hydropower to replace solar power during the sunset hours each day (about 3 pm to 7 pm).

California has an unusual electricity usage profile in that it has a double peak – once around 1 pm and then again about 7 pm when work commuters get home and turn on air conditioners, heaters, or big screen TV’s. That second peak in power usage has to be met with Nat Gas power unless cheap, clean hydropower can be purchased.

A study conducted in 2014 by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the Federal government found that California could double or triple its own large hydropower generation. This is called the New Stream-Reach Hydropower Development study. Nonetheless, due to green opposition to added hydropower in California, the state grid operator is working on procuring hydropower for the Energy Imbalancing Market from out-of-state providers, mainly Warren Buffett’s Pacifi-Corp system of privately owned dams in the Western U.S. So once again, California is now in the process of replacing so-called “dirty coal” power imported from Utah, Nevada and Arizona with hydropower imported from Warren Buffett. But will there be enough reliable imported hydropower to sustain California’s voracious appetite for sunset hour power?

Water levels for dams along the Colorado River already are getting so low that they may have to halt hydropower generation. The Federal government is in the process of doing a retrofit of its hydropower intake towers on its dams to power can still be generated at lower water levels. But this is a race against time and still may not work if levels drop too far.

Upstream, the State of Colorado has already vowed not to bail California out of its drought be releasing any potentially excess water that would flow to Parker Dam which is the life life intake for water for California’s Colorado River Aqueduct.

So stay tuned to Calwatchdog to find out if California’s gamble on an Energy Imbalancing Market works or not. (And once again, who wants a water market that is imbalanced? Don’t we want a “balanced” market? California use of words for this new policy is right out of George Orwell’s double speak).