The Shutdown, Day Two: Olympic National Park Curtails Operations; School Kids’ Visits among Foiled Plans (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20131002/NEWS/310029986/the-shutdown-day-2-8212-olympic-national-park-curtails

FERC: Nominee for Energy Regulatory Post Withdraws (USA Today)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/10/01/nominee-for-energy-regulatory-post-withdraws/2905249/

Reopening Columbia River to Salmon Could Come at High Cost to British Columbia Taxpayers - Bonneville Power reports already spending $750 million a year alleviating effects on wildlife (Vancouver Sun, BC)

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Reopening+Columbia+River+salmon+could+come+high+cost+taxpayers/8980855/story.html

Analysis Shows Extending Wind Tax Credit Would Cost Billions (The Hill)

http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/energyenvironment/325973-analysis-shows-wind-tax-credit-would-cost-billions-

Energy News Digest Word Cloud for October 2, 2013

Lewis County PUD Looks Into Possible Rate Increase (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)

(CHEHALIS, WA) -- Will the Lewis County PUD be forced into raising rates next year?  That’s not known at this time.  But, the BPA is raising wholesale rates by 9-percent.  The federal power broker also raised its transmission rates by 11-percent.  Those increases took place at the first of the month.  The Lewis County PUD gets nearly all of its power from the BPA.  PUD leaders are now looking into whether a rate hike will be necessary.  A final decision is expected by the end of the year. 

Fed Shut-Down – Normal Operations at Bonneville Power Administration: Self-Funding Agency! (U-S Department of Energy)

http://energy.gov/articles/department-energy-implementation-activities-case-lapse-appropriations

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) will continue to operate normally (3,103 employees financed by other than annual appropriations). BPA is self-funding under the permanent, indefinite appropriation known as the Bonneville Fund, established in the Federal Columbia River Transmission System Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. § 838i(b)). It 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. BPA also operates and maintains about three-fourths of the high-voltage transmission in its service territory, which includes Idaho, Oregon, Washington, western Montana and small parts of eastern Montana, California, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.