Northwest aluminum workers rallied yesterday to ask the Bonneville Power Administration to help save jobs threatened by its recommendation that smelters be shut down for up to two years to save electricity. The Bonneville Power Administration and Washington Winds Inc. announced today they are working together to develop and build a 150-megawatt wind farm that will generate enough electricity on average to serve more than 36,000 Northwest homes. The Maiden Wind Farm would be located about 15 miles north of Prosser, Wash., in Benton and Yakima counties. When the winds blow, we can save more water in reservoirs. When the winds are still, we can release the river s power.
Wind farms add to our local renewable resources.
Seattle City Light officials proposed a 9 percent rate increase beginning July 1 and warned that another rate boost of about 22 percent is all but certain in December.