Bonneville Power Administration

Bonneville Power Administration

Agency overview
Formed	August 20, 1937; 86 years ago (1937-08-20)
Jurisdiction	U.S. government
Headquarters	Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Agency executive	John Hairston, administrator
Parent agency	U.S. Department of Energy
Website	www.bpa.gov

The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is an American federal agency operating in the Pacific Northwest. BPA was created by an act of Congress in 1937 to market electric power from the Bonneville Dam located on the Columbia River and to construct facilities necessary to transmit that power. Congress has since designated Bonneville to be the marketing agent for power from all of the federally owned hydroelectric projects in the Pacific Northwest. Bonneville is one of four regional Federal power marketing agencies within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).