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BPA Penalties May Trickle Down to Customers

The electric coops, municipal systems and public utility districts that are customers of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) in the Pacific Northwest may be stuck paying for an investigation of the agency’s flawed hiring practices, according to an October 8 report of the Department of Energy’s inspector general.  Because the BPA is a self-funded, non-profit federal agency, its...