Dams, power lines and statistics: What the Bonneville Power Administration is and does

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Dams, power lines and statistics: What the Bonneville Power Administration is and does

The Bonneville Power Administration was born out of the New Deal, an era of large-scale public works projects that created infrastructure and jobs as the U.S. recovered from the Great Depression. It started to market electricity from the Bonneville and Grand Coulee hydroelectric dams in the 1930s and ’40s. Today, a third of all power consumed in the Pacific Northwest comes from BPA, which owns 75% of the region’s electrical transmission lines.Ei…