What didn’t work, Oler said, was that Gateway West had been fully permitted when the Bureau of Land Management decided to perform additional reviews on the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area. In the end, Gateway has served as an example of what does and doesn’t work. Pacificorp was initially anxious the selection would slow progress, according to observers. Gateway was selected as one of seven focus projects for the Obama administration’s Federal Rapid Response Team for Transmission (RRTT), created to streamline federal agency cooperation in NEPA procedures. NEPA permitting is notorious for complexities and delays. The utility had seen more than a 26% demand increase in the preceding twenty years from the 1.8 million customers in Rocky Mountain Power's Wyoming-Idaho-Utah territory and Pacific Power's Washington-Oregon-California territory.
Rocky Mountain Power's parent company Pacificorp, itself a subsidiary of Warren Buffett-owned Berkshire Hathaway Energy, took the project on in 2007. And the configuration enables the company to receive a variety of existing and new resources.” If something happens on one leg, we can still deliver electricity another way. “It is being built in segments but, once completed, the somewhat triangular design will increase capacity and reliability. “We call Energy Gateway a triangle of reliability,” said Rocky Mountain Power spokeswoman Margaret Oler. “One of the best ways to integrate renewables is to do it over a large area with transmission.” Energy Gateway: 'A triangle of reliability' “Transmission allows you to take advantage of flexible resources anywhere in the system’s footprint,” agreed American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) Head of Research Michael Goggin.
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