BPA Balancing Authority Load and Total Wind, Hydro, and Thermal Generation, Near-Real-Time
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For Historical Data, See Item#5 on the wind page of transmission.bpa.gov
Total hydro and thermal generation was recently added to this page.
You will see that the total generation is always greater than the total BPA load because most of the time BPA is a net exporter of energy. The BPA Load does not include scheduled energy to other balancing authority areas.
The plants that make up the total thermal generation are:
| Big Hannaford |
Grays Harbor |
Riverbend Landfill |
| Boardman (10%) |
Grays Harbor Paper |
Roosevelt Landfill |
| Centralia |
Hampton Lumber Mill |
Sierra Pacific Sawmill |
| Chehalis |
Hermiston |
Seneca Sawmill |
| Coffin Butte |
James River |
Simpson-Tacoma Kraft |
| Columbia Generating Stations |
Kimberly Clark |
Wauna |
| Columbia Ridge Landfill |
Klamath CoGen |
Weyco |
| Finley Butte |
Longview Fibre |
Weyerhaeuser |
| Franklin-Pasco Generation |
Morrow Power at Makad |
Weyerhaeuser Longview |
| Frederickson (50.15%) |
Olympic View |
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| Georgia Pacific |
River Road Generation |
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The plants that make up the total hydro generation are:
| Albeni Falls |
Green Peter |
McNary |
| Big Cliff |
Green Springs |
McNary Fishway |
| Big Fork Generation |
Henry Jackson |
Middle Fork |
| Bonneville |
Hills Creek |
Packwood |
| Carmen |
Hungry Horse |
Roza |
| Chandler |
Ice Harbor |
Smith Creek |
| Chief Joseph |
John Day |
The Dalles |
| Cougar |
Lake Creek |
The Dalles Fishway |
| Cowlitz Falls |
Leaburg |
Trail Bridge |
| Detroit |
Libby |
Walterville |
| Dexter |
Little Goose |
Yakima Drop Plant |
| Dworshak |
Lost Creek |
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| Dworshak Clearwater Hatchery |
Lower Granite |
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| Foster |
Lookout Point |
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| Grand Coulee |
Lower Monumental |
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