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Bonneville Power Administration and Washington State University have designed a special program that’s preparing the power workforce for the nation’s smarter energy future.

Top tribal leaders, industry and tribal executives, and federal representatives are teaming up with the Office of Indian Energy at a forum on “Exploring the Business Link Opportunity: Transmission & Clean Energy Development in the West” -- an exciting opportunity to integrate these issues into a broader dialogue on tribal energy interests.

Accurate weather forecasts are critical for making energy sources -- including wind and solar -- dependable and predictable.

Find out how new power lines may now require fewer towers per mile, reducing their environmental footprint and price, which in turn helps minimize costs for electric consumers.

Modernizing our grid means exciting new devices in the power sector. Find out how new lighting controls, connectors and surge protection will bring out electric grid to the next level.

Check out Bonneville Power Administration’s new near real-time energy monitoring – it displays the output of all wind, thermal and hydro generation in the agency’s balancing authority against its load. Updated every five minutes, it’s a great resource for universities, research laboratories and other utilities.

How can we prevent grid events, like unexpected outages or power fluctuations, from turning into much larger problems? Find out more about the monitoring devices -- "phasors" -- helping us manage our grid and support renewable energy sources such as wind.

Find out more about the power engineers behind the exciting new technologies that are essential to constructing a national Smart Grid.

Utilities rise to Energy Department Assistant Secretary Patricia Hoffman's challenge to find ways to enable customers to participate more fully in their electric system.

A new video series is increasing general public knowledge of the cutting edge jobs in the power sector that are essential to implementing a national clean-energy Smart Grid. Find out how switches and surge arresters are making the grid more reliable -- helping to bring the grid into the 21st century.

Innovative new systems not only generate energy through a solar panel that feeds into the grid, but they are also equipped with communications capabilities.

Currently under construction, the Montana-Alberta Tie Line, which is owned by Toronto-based Tonbridge Power, will connect the electricity markets of Alberta and Montana and bring about 600 megawatts of wind-generated power to communities throughout the Western U.S. and Canada.