Interregional Resource Potentials: A Survey of Potentials for the Pacific Northwest Acquiring Renewable Resources from Adjoining Regions and for Mutually Beneficial Interregional Power Exchanges

摘要

This report identifies many potential transactions with adjoining regions. Some of these are existing, some have been under study for a number of years, and some are new ideas that merit analysis. Included are exchanges of capacity (energy delivered during hours of peak loads) for firm offpeak energy, seasonal exchanges of capacity or firm power to take advantage of diversity in loads, short-term power purchases and sales, sharing of power systems' reserve generating capacity, coordination of hydraulic operations to maximize use of storage reservoirs, and provisional energy sales (effected by drafting water from reservoirs having a high probability of refilling to generate and provisionally sell additional energy, with assured returns of the energy generated from such drafts if refill does not occur). It appears most of these would be mutually beneficial to the Pacific Northwest and the adjoining region, but all require further study. Some have significant problems to be overcome. (ERA citation 11:016336)