4. NWPPC REVISES FEDERAL POWER SYSTEM FAILURE PROBABILITIES

The Northwest Power and Conservation Council corrected this week a mistake to its December calculations of the Federal Columbia River Power System’s loss of load probability (LOLP), saying that there is little to worry about this year and through 2006.

LOLP is a measurement of the likelihood that the regional power system would fail during January through March to meet all power loads and would have to curtail usage.

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