BPA going to get a make over..

Find the article here:

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf?/base/news/1228530317257150.xml&coll=7

Jeff Mapes of the Oregonian wrote:

"Rep. Earl Blumenauer said Friday that he expects the incoming Obama administration to seek new leadership at one of the Northwest's most crucial agencies, the Bonneville Power Administration.

The federal power agency, headed by career BPA official Steve Wright, markets electricity from Northwest dams and other power sources and plays a big role in both the region's economy and environment.

Blumenauer, D-Ore., said he has been talking with President-elect Barack Obama's transition team about reorienting the agency so that it focuses more on providing a transmission system for wind power and other new renewable energy sources -- and he expected part of that to involve new leadership."

While I am supportive of renewable energy (By the way, are the dams not renewable energy?) wind, solar and Geothermal (yes, there are some active volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest. but the question is it cost effective to do?)

How is BPA going to integrate these vast and desperate systems into the grid that is mostly nuclear and columbia river dam power from the US and Canada?

Would it not be a mess to have wind power that was going on and off all the time instead of a steady stream of power from a dams, that naturally has been for years bypassing us and heading to a very and ever increasing growth of California instead of staying in the Pacific Northwest for our own generation needs and ever increasing population.

I wonder if it would be smarter to invest in more energy efficient housing, warehouse, office and other building types along with minor increases in capacity of renewables instead of building all of these acre upon acre of wind farms?