The following is a list of presentation and background material from Council and Power Committee meetings.
We've included the Council's key assumptions and decisions related to the plan - however, it's not a complete list of every presentation given at every Council meeting.
View ALL Council Meeting Agendas and materials
If you have questions about the information presented, please contact: Chad Madron, Project Analyst, Power Division.
Be sure to also take a look at our Advisory Committees and their recent work for additional information!
Power Committee Discussions of Draft Plan
The Power Committee met several times in July and August to discuss the draft plan material. Recordings of these sessions are available on request.
Plan Development Timelines and Related:
- Council Approves Release of Draft 2021 Northwest Power Plan for Public Review (8/2021)
- Blog post includes an overview of main Plan findings. Full Plan will be posted for public comment in early September
- Blog Post on Updated Schedule (05/2021)
- Overview of Power Plan Drafting Process (04/2021)
- Power Plan Status, Reflections and Expectations (04/2021)
- Update on Scenarios and the Plan Process (03/2021)
Older:
- 2020 Power Division Work Plan Update (01/2020)
- Development of supporting material for the Power Plan (07/2020)
- Timeline and project update for power plan (8/2019)
- Draft 2021 Power Plan High Level Approach and Organization (3/2019)
- Project timeline and development milestones (2/2019)
- On February 21 the Council held a kickoff webinar about the 2021 Northwest Power Plan
Presentations from the 2021 Plan Development Process:
Organized by topic with newest presentations listed first
- Briefing on the analytical process for the 2021 Power Plan (02 - 04/2020)
Scenario Analysis
- Discussion of Key Issues related to the 2021 Power Plan (05/2021)
- Gaps in Analysis and Potential Limitations on Findings (05/2021)
Bonneville Scenario:
- Bonneville Portfolio Scenario Findings (06/2021)
- Bonneville Portfolio Scenario Findings (05/2021)
- Update on Bonneville Portfolio Scenario (04/2021)
- Early look at the Bonneville Portfolio Scenario (04/2021)
Paths to Decarbonization:
- Pathways to Decarbonization Scenario Findings (06/2021)
- Paths to Decarbonization Scenario Discussion (05/2021)
Greenhouse Gas Cost Tipping Points:
- Greenhouse Gas Tipping Point Scenario Findings (05/2021)
- Greenhouse Gas Tipping Point Scenario (04/2021)
Extra-Regional Markets/Organized and Limited Markets:
- Markets related Scenario Findings for Power Plan (05/2021)
- Organized and Limited Market Scenario Updates (04/2021)
- Markets for Energy/Capacity (04/2021)
- Extra Regional Markets and Adequacy (03/2021)
Early Retirement of Coal Generation
- Summary of Coal Retirement Scenario Findings (Full Council) (04/2021)
- Coal Retirement Scenario Discussion (03/2021)
Robustness of Energy Efficiency:
- Robustness of EE Scenario Full Council Summary (03/2021)
- Robustness of EE Scenario Findings - Power Committee (02/2021)
- Relative costs of resources and update on Robustness of EE scenario approach (01/28/2021)
Baseline:
- Summary of Baseline Condition Modeling Results for Power Plan - Full Council (02/2021)
- Review of Baseline Conditions Modeling Results (01/12/2021)
Older:
BPA scenario update (06/2020)
- Review of Plan Scenarios – Part 1 (01/2020)
- Review of Plan Scenarios - Part 2 (02/2020)
- Presentation related to scenarios (07/2019)
- Scenarios proposed for inclusion (07/2019)
- Scenarios NOT recommended for inclusion - these were considered by staff, but ultimately not recommended (07/2019)
Resource Strategy
Rates and Bills Modeling and Regional Portfolio Model (03/2021)
- Exports/Imports in RPM (01/12/2021)
- Review of Baseline Conditions Modeling Results (01/12/2021)
- Overview of updates to Regional Portfolio Model (12/15/2020)
- First look at Baseline Conditions RPM Results (12/15/2020)
- Adequacy results from Redeveloped GENESYS (12/15/2020)
- First look at redeveloped GENESYS results (12/03/2020)
Older:
- Update to challenges with RPM (10/01/2020)
- Challenges with RPM Methodology (09/2020)
- Update on New Version of GENESYS (05/2020)
- Updates to RPM Methodologies (01/2020)
- Analyze Resource Strategies Process Primer (8/2019)
- Overview of Plan and how the proposed resource strategy is developed (05/2019)
Resource Adequacy
- 2021 Power Plan Adequacy Assessment (05/2021)
- Discussion of a Cost-Effective Reserve Methodology (05/2021)
- Plan Adequacy Assessment Overview (04/2021)
- Update on Power Plan Needs Assessment (ASCC) (03/2021)
- Update on Power Plan Needs Assessment (Adequacy Reserve Margin) (01/2021)
Older:
- Resource Adequacy Primer - full council (10/14/2020)
- Adequacy Update (ASCC/ARM) for 2021 Power Plan Part 2 (09/2020)
- Adequacy Update (ASCC/ARM) for 2021 Power Plan Part 1 (08/2020)
- Presentation on 2024 Resource Adequacy Report (09/2019)
- Estimate System Adequacy Requirements Process Primer (08/2019)
Conservation and Energy Efficiency
Comments on Draft Framework for Conservation Program (10/12/2020)
- Update on Federal Energy Efficiency Standards (09/2020)
- Regional Conservation Progress Report (09/2020)
- Initial Conservation Target Framework (08/2020)
- EE Supply Curves for Baseline and for Scenario Analysis (05/2020)
- EE Typical Meteorological Year Adjustment (04/2020)
- EE supply curves for Draft Plan (02/2020)
- Update on planning parameters for EE supply curves (8/2019)
- Develop Model Conservation Standards and Surcharge Methodology (07/2019)
- Develop energy efficiency supply curves (06/2019)
Demand Response
- Demand Response Sensitivity Study (05/2021)
- DR supply curves for Draft Plan (02/2020)
- Demand Response Supply Curve Development (05/2019)
Generation Resources
- Update on WECC-Wide Clean Policy Wrap Up (08/2020)
- Summary of primary generating resource reference plants and emerging tech reference plant for draft 2021 Power Plan (06/2020)
- Update on Existing System, Coal Retirements, and Policies (05/2020)
- Update on historical regional greenhouse gas emissions (04/2020)
- Draft natural gas reference plants, GC (02/2020)
- Draft conventional geothermal reference plant, (02/2020)
- Draft Pumped storage reference plant (12/2019)
- Onshore Wind Generation Reference Plant (11/2019)
- Solar, Battery Storage, and Solar + Battery Storage Reference Plants (10/2019)
- Review of Existing System and WECC-Wide Coal Retirements (09/2019)
- Development of Generating Resources Reference Plants (05/2019)
Load Forecasts
- Load Forecast Updates (08/2020)
- BPA Load forecast (05/2020)
- Out-of-region load forecast and California climate-inclusive load forecast (05/2020)
- Updates to load and other forecasts based on GCM Selection (02/2020)
- Further Detail on Load Forecast (10/2019)
- Forecast of Draft Loads w/Frozen Efficiency for 2021 Power Plan/Related GCMs, (09/2019)
- Forecast load with price effects and forecast load with frozen efficiency (06/2019)
- Forecast outside the Northwest (06/2019)
- Economic drivers for the plan (04/2019)
Natural Gas, Electricity Price Forecast
Seasonality and Market Prices (04/2021)
Overview of Hydrogen (01/12/2021)
- Wholesale Electricity Price Forecast Update (11/17/2020) - final presentation
Older:
- Electricity Price Forecast Updates (10/12/2020)
- Updates to Electricity Price Forecast based on committee feedback (10/01/2020)
- Wholesale Electricity Forecast Results Part 2 (09/2020)
- Wholesale Electricity Price Forecast Part 1 (08/2020)
- Briefing on upstream methane in Power Plan (06/2020)
- Upstream Methane (01/2020)
- Update on Wholesale Electricity Price Forecast and Avoided Emissions Rate (11/2019)
- Natural Gas Price Forecast for 2021 Power Plan (11/2019)
- End Use Gas Load Forecast (07/2019)
- Forecast electricity prices (06/2019)
- Natural Gas Price Forecast and other fuel prices (05/2019)
- Transportation Forecast (05/2019)
Climate Change
Update on Climate Scenario Selection (05/2020)
- General Circulation Model Scenario Selection (11/2019)
- Overview of climate change and earth system models and representative concentration paths, Dr. David Rupp, Oregon State University (06/2019)
- Intro to Climate change and the 2021 power plan (04/2019)
Other Material
Summary of System Integration Forum’s exploration of energy equity in the 2021 Power Plan (03/2021)
DEI at Advisory Committees - key takeaways (12/15/2020)
State of Electric Utilities 2019 (11/17/2020)
- Results from stakeholder survey on use of previous power plan content (08/2020)
- Power plan publication strategy (02/2020)
- State of Electric Utilities (2018-2019) (12/2019)
- Review State Clean Energy Policies and Impact on 2021 Plan Analysis
- Briefing on methodology for quantifying the environmental costs and benefits of new resources for the 2021 Power Plan (09/2019)
- Develop Cost Effective Methods for Providing Reserves (Process Description) (09/2019)
- Environmental Methodology Development Primer (8/2019)
- Establishing global financial and economic assumptions for the 2021 Power Plan (07/2019)
- Establish existing system parameters and interpret state policies (07/2019)
- Consistent Treatment of Quantifiable Resource Costs (03/2019)
- Proposed discount rate for the 2021 Power Plan (02/2019)