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  • 5 days ago | columbian.com | Henry Brannan |Sarah Wolf

    Southwest Washington’s Columbia River international exporters are bracing for the Trump administration’s ever-intensifying trade war. Many importers already feel the pain. The president’s aggressive suite of protectionist policies aim to dramatically reduce the flow of Chinese goods coming into U.S. ports. But the policies have also disrupted the Columbia River shipping industry, which moves about $31 billion in goods each year and serves as the backbone of Southwest Washington’s economy.

  • 1 week ago | tdn.com | Henry Brannan

    Dramatic increases in the number of data centers, electric vehicles and electric appliances around the Pacific Northwest will cause demand for electricity in the region to potentially double over the next two decades. That’s according to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. On Tuesday, the congressionally mandated regional power planning agency presented its latest 20-year demand forecast for the Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana power system.

  • 1 week ago | thenewstribune.com | Henry Brannan

    May 1-Dramatic increases in the number of data centers, electric vehicles and electric appliances around the Pacific Northwest will cause demand for electricity in the region to potentially double over the next two decades. That's according to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. On Tuesday, the congressionally mandated regional power planning agency presented its latest 20-year demand forecast for the Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana power system.

  • 2 weeks ago | columbian.com | Henry Brannan

    Dramatic increases in the number of data centers, electric vehicles and electric appliances around the Pacific Northwest will cause demand for electricity in the region to potentially double over the next two decades. That’s according to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. On Tuesday, the congressionally mandated regional power planning agency presented its latest 20-year demand forecast for the Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana power system.

  • 2 weeks ago | chronline.com | Henry Brannan

    A move by federal water managers to pause a landmark environmental review of the Columbia River hydropower system has become a Rorschach test that leaves utilities, salmon advocates, commercial shippers and Native nations, as well as Washington and Oregon officials guessing. The pause could be routine, as officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation insist.

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Henry Brannan
Henry Brannan @henry_brannan
1 May 25

New projections show PNW power demand may double in next 20 years fueled by an explosion in the # of data centers, EVs and electric appliances. But, with many proposed energy projects facing pushback for harms they cause, where will that power come from? https://t.co/6Q6rHuC0dB

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