TY - BOOK ED - Northwest Power Planning TI - Better use of the hydropower system U1 - 621.312 PY - 1989/// CY - Oregon PB - Northwest Power Planning KW - Producción de Energía KW - Centrales Hidroeléctricas KW - Estados Unidos N1 - 06357; The paper aims to determine whether Northwest nonfirm energy, in conjunction with a backup resource, can meet firm loads in the Northwest more cheaply than can a alternative resources . This study focuses on two easily characterizable technologies, natural gas-fired simple and combined-cycle combustion turbines. The paper tests the resources for cost-effectiveness against the current plan's marginal resource, a convencional coal plant ER -