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2009 BPA facts

Unless otherwise noted, information is for fiscal year 2009 .

Profile
The Bonneville Power Administration is a federal nonprofit agency based in the Pacific Northwest . Although BPA is part of the U .S . Department of Energy, it is self-funding and covers its costs by selling its products and services . BPA markets wholesale electrical power from 31 federal hydro projects in the Columbia River Basin, one nonfederal nuclear plant and several other small nonfederal power plants . The dams are operated by the U .S . Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation . About one-third of the electric power used in the Northwest comes from BPA . BPA also operates and maintains about three-fourths of the high-voltage transmission in its service territory . BPAs service territory includes Idaho, Oregon, Washington, western Montana and small parts of eastern Montana, California, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming . As part of its responsibilities, BPA promotes energy efficiency, renewable resources and new technologies . The agency also funds regional efforts to protect and rebuild fish and wildlife populations affected by hydropower development in the Columbia River Basin . BPA is committed to providing public service and seeks to make its decisions in a manner that provides opportunities for input from all stakeholders . In its vision statement, BPA dedicates itself to providing high system reliability, low rates consistent with sound business principles, environmental stewardship and accountability .

BPA Mission
The Bonneville Power Administrations mission as a public service organization is to create and deliver the best value for our customers and constituents as we act in concert with others to assure the Pacific Northwest: an adequate, efficient, economical and reliable power supply; a transmission system that is adequate to the task of integrating and transmitting power from federal and nonfederal generating units, providing service to BPAs customers, providing interregional interconnections, and maintaining electrical reliability and stability; and mitigation of the Federal Columbia River Power Systems impacts on fish and wildlife . BPA is committed to cost-based rates and public and regional preference in its marketing of power . BPA will set its rates as low as possible consistent with sound business principles and the full recovery of all of its costs, including timely repayment of the federal investment in the system .

2009 Financial Highlights

For the Federal Columbia River Power System
($ in thousands)

Total operating revenues6/ . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,870,284 Total operating expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,752,905 Net operating revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,379 Net interest expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218,429 Net expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (101,050) Derivative instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 34,677 Nonfederal debt management actions . . . . (120,853) Modified net expenses7/ . . . . . . . . . . . .$ (187,226)
6/ Includes both power and transmission revenues . 7/ Management has determined that modified net revenues (expenses) are a better representation of the outcomes of normal operations during periods of debt management actions and fluctuations in derivative market prices . See BPAs 2009 Annual Report for more information .

Sources of revenue 8/ 9/
($ in millions)

Publicly owned utilities $1,673

BPA Vision
BPA will be an engine of the Northwests economic prosperity and environmental sustainability . BPAs actions advance a Northwest power system that is a national leader in providing: high reliability; low rates consistent with sound business principles; responsible environmental stewardship; and accountability to the region . We deliver on these public responsibilities 2/ through a commercially successful business .
2/ Our public responsibilities are defined by the four characteristics listed above .

Investor-owned utilities $144 Net expenses $101

U .S . Treasury credits for fish $99 Misc . revenues $63 Sales outside the NW $274 Wheeling & other sales $689

Disposition of revenue 8/
($ in millions)

Operations & maintenance $1,578

General Information
BPA established . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1937 Service area size (square miles) . . . . . . . . . . 300,000 Pacific Northwest population . . . . . . . . . . 12,434,934 Transmission line (circuit miles) . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,212 BPA substations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Employees (FTE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,100

Purchased power $354 Nonfederal projects $501 Net interest expense $218 Federal projects depreciation $356

Rates
Wholesale power rates 3/ (10/1/09-9/30/10)
Non-Slice Priority Firm . . . . . . . . . . . 2 .88 cents/kWh (average,4/ undelivered) Priority Firm Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 .87 cents/kWh (average, undelivered) New Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 .87 cents/kWh (flat, undelivered)
3/ The rates shown do not include the cost of transmission . They also do not include the application of the Conservation Rate Credit . 4/ The actual rate paid by an individual customer will vary according to the shape of the load and the products and services purchased .

8/ Does not reflect bookouts of -$37 million . 9/ Does not reflect derivative instruments of -$35 million .

Customers
Cooperatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Municipalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Public utility districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Federal agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Investor-owned utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Direct-service industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Port districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Tribal utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Marketers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1681/ Transmission customers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
1/ This number now includes both power and transmission marketers . Previous editions of BPA Facts only listed the number of power marketers .

Transmission System
Operating voltage Circuit miles
1,000 kV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26410/ 500 kV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,734 345 kV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570 287 kV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 230 kV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,319 161 kV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 138 kV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 115 kV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,556 below 115 kV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,212
10/ BPAs portion of the PNW/PSW direct-current intertie . The total length of this line from The Dalles, Ore ., to Los Angeles is 846 miles .

Transmission rates 5/ (FYs 2010-2011)

Network rates:
Firm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15 .576/kW/yr Nonfirm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .374 cents/kWh

Southern intertie rates:

Firm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15 .516/kW/yr Nonfirm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .372 cents/kWh
5/ Reflects the rates for point-to-point transmission service . All short-term firm and nonfirm rates are downwardly flexible .

Federal Hydro Projects

Name Albeni Falls Anderson Ranch Big Cliff Black Canyon Boise River Diversion Bonneville Chandler Chief Joseph Cougar Detroit Dexter Dworshak Foster Grand Coulee 11/ Green Peter Green Springs Hills Creek Hungry Horse Ice Harbor John Day Libby Little Goose Lookout Point Lost Creek Lower Granite Lower Monumental McNary Minidoka Palisades Roza The Dalles River, state Pend Oreille, ID Boise, ID Santiam, OR Payette, ID Boise, ID Columbia, OR/WA Yakima, WA Columbia, WA McKenzie, OR Santiam, OR Willamette, OR Clearwater, ID Santiam, OR Columbia, WA Santiam, OR Emigrant Crk, OR Willamette, OR Flathead, MT Snake, WA Columbia, OR/WA Kootenai, MT Snake, WA Willamette, OR Rogue, OR Snake, WA Snake, WA Columbia, OR/WA Snake, ID Snake, ID Yakima, WA Columbia, OR/WA In Nameplate service rating 1955 1950 1953 1925 1912 1938 1956 1958 1963 1953 1954 1973 1967 1942 1967 1960 1962 1953 1962 1971 1975 1970 1953 1977 1975 1969 1952 1909 1958 1958 1957 43 MW 40 MW 18 MW 10 MW 3 MW 1,077 MW 12 MW 2,458 MW 25 MW 100 MW 15 MW 400 MW 20 MW 6,765MW 80 MW 16 MW 30 MW 428 MW 603 MW 2,160 MW 525 MW 810 MW 120 MW 49 MW 810 MW 810 MW 980 MW 28 MW 176 MW 11 MW 1,808 MW 20,430 MW

Federal Generation (FY 2009)

Hydro generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7,588 aMW Total generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8,406 aMW 60-min . hydro peak generation . . . . . . . . .15,256 MW 60-min . total peak generation . . . . . . . . . .15,914 MW All-time 60-min . total peak generation record (June 2002) . . . . . . .18,139 MW

Washington, D.C. Office Forrestal Bldg ., Room 8G-061,

1000 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, DC 20585 202-586-5640

Crime Witness Program To report crimes to BPA

property or personnel 800-437-2744

Transmission Services
Transmission Services Headquarters P .O . Box 491,
Vancouver, WA 98666-0491 360-418-2000

Fish & Wildlife Costs

($ in millions)

Covington District Office 28401 Covington Way S .E .,

Kent, WA 98402 253-638-7376

BPA F&W program expense 13/ (does not include $25 .5 million capital) . . . . . $178 Direct funded/reimbursable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Capital investment/fixed expense . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Total direct costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $362 Operational impacts: Replacement power purchases . . . . . . . . . . . $240 Estimated foregone power revenues . . . . . . . 143 Total F&W costs for FY 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $745

FY 2009

Eugene District Office 86000 Hwy . 99 S .,

Eugene, OR 97405 541-988-7401 Idaho Falls, ID 83402 208-612-3110 Kalispell, MT 59901 406-751-7897

Idaho Falls Regional Office 1350 Lindsay Blvd ., Kalispell District Office 2520 U .S . Hwy . 2 East, Longview District Office 3750 Memorial Park Drive,
Longview, WA 98632 360-414-5601

Olympia, WA 98512-5623 360-570-4301

Olympia Regional Office 5240 Trosper Rd . S .W ., Redmond District Office 3655 S .W . Highland Ave .,
Redmond, OR 97756 541-548-4015, Ext. 3225 Keizer, OR 97303 503-393-2638

BPA has committed more than $11 billion since 1978 to support Northwest fish and wildlife recovery .
13/ Integrated program and action plan/high priority .

Salem District Office 2715 Tepper Lane N .E .,

Snohomish, WA 98290 360-563-3602

Conservation
($ in millions)

Snohomish District Office 914 Ave . D,

FY 2009
Total BPA expenses Megawatts saved Residential programs Commercial programs Industrial programs Agricultural programs Multi-sector programs Programs subtotal Improved building codes Market transformation Total aMW saved $72

Total 14/
$2,366

Spokane District Office 2410 E . Hawthorne Rd ., Mead, WA 99201 509-358-7379 The Dalles District Office 3920 Columbia View Dr . East, The Dalles, OR 97058 541-296-4694

Total (31 dams)

Owned and operated by the U .S . Army Corps of Engineers (21 dams, 12,940 MW) Owned and operated by the Bureau of Reclamation (10 dams, 7,490 MW).

11/ Includes pump generation .

BPA Resources 12/

20 .2 aMW 304 .2 aMW 20 .3 aMW 222 .2 aMW 7 .6 aMW 132 .9 aMW 2 .1 aMW 23 .7 aMW 1 .0 aMW 108 .9 aMW 51 .1 aMW 792 .0 aMW 0 aMW 188 .5 aMW 12 .6 aMW 155 .6 aMW 63 .7 aMW 1,136 .1 aMW

Tri-Cities District Office 3404 Swallow Ave ., Pasco, WA 99301 509-542-5430 Wenatchee District Office 13294 Lincoln Park Rd ., East Wenatchee, WA 98802 509-886-6001

Power Services
Bend Customer Service Center 1011 S .W . Emkay Dr ., Suite 211, Bend, OR 97702 541-318-1680 Burley Customer Service Center 2700 Overland,
Burley, ID 83318 208-678-9481

(for OY 2010 under 1937 water conditions)

Sustained 1-hour peak capacity (January) 18,326 MW Hydro: 16,332 MW (89 .1%) Nuclear: 1,150 MW (6 .3%) Firm contracts & other resources: 844 MW (4 .6%) Firm energy (12-month annual avg.) 8,862 aMW Hydro: 6,983 aMW (78 .8%) Nuclear: 1,030 aMW (11 .6%) Firm contracts & other resources: 849 aMW (9 .6%)

14/ Cumulative total since 1981 . Adjustments to savings and dollars have been applied .

Points of Contact
General BPA offices & Web sites
Portland, OR 97208 503-230-3000 www.bpa.gov

Eastern Area Customer Service Center 707 W . Main

Ave., Suite 500, Spokane, WA 99201 509-625-1371 Dayton, MT 59914 406-849-5034

Montana Customer Service Center P .O . Box 140, Richland Customer Service Center Kootenai Bldg .,
Room 215, North Power Plant Loop, P .O . Box 968, Richland, WA 99352 509-372-5088

BPA Headquarters 905 N .E . 11th Ave ., P .O . Box 3621, Public Information Center 905 N .E . 11th Ave .,
P.O. Box 3621, Portland, OR 97208 503-230-INFO [4636] 800-622-4520

Seattle Customer Service Center 909 First Ave .,

Suite 380, Seattle, WA 98104-3636 206-220-6770 Portland, OR 97208 503-230-5204

Regional Resources

12/

(for OY 2010 under 1937 water conditions)

Sustained peak capacity (January) 45,603 MW Hydro: 27,142 MW (59 .5%) Coal: 5,866 MW (12 .9%) Combustion turbines: 5,526 MW (12 .1%) Cogeneration: 2,938 MW (6 .4%) Imports: 2,094 MW (4 .6%) Nuclear: 1,150 MW (2 .5%) Non-utility generation: 630 MW (1 .4%) Other miscellaneous resources: 258 MW (0 .6%) Firm energy (12-month annual avg.) 26,033 aMW Hydro: 11,842 aMW (45 .5%) Coal: 4,951 aMW (19 .0%) Combustion turbines: 2,824 aMW (10 .8%) Cogeneration: 2,530 aMW (9 .7%) Imports: 1,239 aMW (4 .8%) Nuclear: 1,030 aMW (4 .0%) Non-utility generation: 626 aMW (2 .4%) Other miscellaneous resources: 991 aMW (3 .8%)
12/ Forecast figures from BPAs draft 2009 Pacific Northwest Loads & Resources Study . Firm resource projections before adjustment for reserves, maintenance and transmission losses . The hydro capacity is reduced by an operational peaking adjustment to estimate the monthly maximum operational capability that is available to meet the 1-hour peak load for 1937 critical-water conditions . For January 2010, the reduction is -4,626 peak MW .

OR 97293-4428 800-622-4519

Community Engagement P .O . Box 14428, Portland,

Western Area CSC 905 N .E . 11th Ave ., P .O . Box 3621,

Transmission System and Federal Dams

DOE/BP-4223 November 2010