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30-654: Hodel may refer to: Donald P. Hodel (born 1935), United States Secretary of Energy and Secretary of Interior George Hodel (1907–1999), American physician, and a suspect in the Elizabeth Short murder. Max Hödel (1857–1878), failed assassin of Wilhelm I of Germany Merwin Hodel (1931–1988), American football player Nathan Hodel (born 1977), American football player Ronny Hodel (born 1982), Swiss footballer Hodel v. Irving , U.S. Supreme Court case Hodel

60-457: A Seattle-based developer of wind, solar and gas-fired power plants . In 1989, he was the founder and managing director of Summit's predecessor company. Washington Public Power Supply System Energy Northwest (formerly Washington Public Power Supply System ) is a public power joint operating agency in the northwest United States, formed in 1957 by Washington state law to produce at-cost power for Northwest utilities. Headquartered in

90-561: A production capacity of 38.7 kilowatts DC. Energy Northwest next built and continues to operate the region's first public power wind project – Nine Canyon Wind Project. It was dedicated in October 2002, with a second phase going online in December 2003, and the third and final phase in service in May 2008, bringing the total capacity to 95.9 megawatts. Energy Northwest's latest development is

120-460: A program of conservation and alternative energy sources instead of participation in the nuclear plants. Managing director Neil Strand resigned in February 1980, after being under fire for several months due to the cost overruns and construction delays at the five nuclear power plants. He had been in the lead position for nearly three years. In January 1982, cost overruns and delays, along with

150-636: A slowing of electricity demand growth, led to cancellation of two WPPSS plants and a construction halt on the two-reactor Satsop Nuclear Power Plant which was 75% complete. Seventeen months later in June 1983, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled the long-term take-or-pay contracts to buy the power produced by the project were illegal. The next month, in July 1983, WPPSS defaulted on $ 2.25 billion of municipal bonds , which

180-627: A study on the removal of the O'Shaughnessy Dam in Yosemite National Park , and the restoration of Hetch Hetchy Valley , a smaller but inundated version of Yosemite Valley . Dianne Feinstein , former mayor of San Francisco , which owns the dam, opposed the study and had it quashed. In March 1984, the Navajo Nation requested that Secretary of the Interior William Clark make a reasonable adjustment of

210-507: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Donald P. Hodel The Washington Post reported a factual error regarding a leak of false information by a State Department staffer, which the staffer falsely attributed to Hodel, that rather than reduce the production of CFCs to prevent ozone layer destruction, people should wear hats and use sunscreen. Hodel never made that statement. Hodel’s press secretary, David Prosperi, got wind of

240-458: Is governed by two boards: an executive board and a board of directors. The executive board has 11 members: five representatives from the board of directors, three gubernatorial appointees and three public representatives selected by the board of directors. The board of directors includes a representative from each member utility. The consortium's nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, and battery storage projects deliver nearly 1,400 megawatts of electricity to

270-583: Is the author of Crisis in the Oil Patch (Regnery, 1995). From June 1997 to February 1999, Hodel served as president of the Christian Coalition , a nonprofit conservative political group founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson . From May 2003 to March 2005, Hodel served as president and CEO of Focus on the Family , a nonprofit evangelical Christian organization. He said his job

300-491: Is the second largest municipal bond default in U.S. history. The court case that followed took nearly a decade to resolve, and WPPSS acquired the nickname "Whoops" in the media. Fuel loading at Columbia Generating Station began on December 25, 1983, and proceeded at a rate of 50 fuel assemblies per day. The process was completed January 12, 1984, and Columbia was declared in commercial operation December 13, 1984. On January 19, 2010, Energy Northwest submitted an application to

330-625: Is the second oldest daughter in the play Fiddler on the Roof . See also [ edit ] Hodell Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Hodel . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hodel&oldid=884038131 " Categories : Disambiguation pages German-language surnames Hidden categories: Short description

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360-619: The Tri-Cities at Richland, Washington , the WPPSS became commonly (and derisively) known as "Whoops!", due to over-commitment to nuclear power in the 1970s which brought about financial collapse and the second largest municipal bond default in U.S. history. WPPSS was renamed Energy Northwest in November 1998, and agency membership includes 28 public power utilities, including 23 of the state's 29 public utility districts . Energy Northwest

390-609: The University of Oregon . While living in Oregon, the Hodels had two sons, and Barbara became a full-time mother. After their elder son's suicide, the Hodels became evangelical Christians. They became active in church and other Christian ministries and began speaking at evangelical meetings and prayer breakfasts. The Hodels have appeared on The 700 Club with Pat Robertson , The Hour of Power with Robert Schuller and on Focus on

420-579: The Washington State Grange , a non-partisan, grassroots advocacy group for rural citizens with both legislative programs and community activities. Public utility districts were created to provide reliable, low-cost power for the growing state. On January 31, 1957, the state legislature created the Washington Public Power Supply System, now known as Energy Northwest, as a joint operating agency to share

450-734: The Family broadcasts with James Dobson , encouraging families that have also lost loved ones to suicide. From 1972 to 1977, Hodel was the administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration . After leaving it, he said that the Pacific Northwest would eventually need all the power that would be produced by the nuclear power plants proposed by the Washington Public Power Supply System . Hodel served as United States Secretary of Energy from 1982 to 1985 and Secretary of

480-551: The Interior from 1985 to 1989 under President Ronald Reagan . He had been Undersecretary of the Interior under James Watt . Critics disrupted his efforts to impose a new management policy on a large amount of federal land and blocked his efforts to create vast new wilderness areas . In spite of the criticisms, the Reagan administration added over two million acres (8,000 km²) to the national wilderness system. The Hodel policy

510-678: The Interior, in 1985 Hodel ordered the acquisition of a ranch in southern Arizona that became the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge . Encompassing approximately 118,000 acres (480 km ) of savanna grassland in the Altar Valley , the refuge was created for the masked bobwhite quail . This refuge contains the United States' only population of the masked bobwhite quail. As of 2023 , Hodel serves as chairman emeritus at Summit Power Group, Inc.,

540-468: The Northwest power grid. Current power projects include White Bluffs Solar Station , Packwood Lake Hydroelectric Project , Nine Canyon Wind Project , Horn Rapids Solar, Storage and Training Project and Columbia Generating Station nuclear power plant . Energy Northwest functions as a municipal corporation , similar to a town or city. That legal status allows the agency to issue public bonds to raise

570-522: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a 20-year license renewal of Columbia Generating Station. This renewal was granted in May 2012 and the 1116 megawatt plant is currently licensed for operation to December 20, 2043. The agency built and continues to operate White Bluffs Solar Station demonstration project, which was dedicated in May 2002. The low-maintenance, environmentally friendly project uses 242 photovoltaic panels to reach

600-607: The agency made a successful pitch to be the non-federal operator of the steam generator half of the project. President Kennedy presided over the groundbreaking in September 1963. Commercial operation of the 860-megawatt Hanford Generating Project began in April 1966. For the agency, under the regionally developed Hydro-Thermal Power Program, the 1970s brought the challenge of attempting to simultaneously construct multiple nuclear power plants. Over-commitment to nuclear power brought about

630-424: The coal lease royalty rate paid by Peabody Coal, now Peabody Energy . In July 1985, the newly appointed Hodel secretly met ex parte with Peabody's representative, "a former aide and friend of Secretary Hodel". After briefly reviewing the proposals' merits, Hodel approved lease amendments with royalty rates well below the rate that had previously been determined appropriate by the agencies responsible for monitoring

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660-697: The federal government's relations with Native Americans. In 2007, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit determined that those actions breached the government's duty of trust to the Nation and established a "cognizable money-mandating claim" against the government under the Indian Tucker Act. Hodel moved to Colorado , where he engaged in the energy consulting business and served on various charitable and corporate boards of directors. He

690-400: The financial capital necessary to build additional power generating and other public utility facilities. The agency also provides a variety of business services in the energy, power generation and technical fields, including a range of project management and facility operations and maintenance services. The public power movement gained prominence in the 1920s and 1930s under the leadership of

720-477: The financial collapse of the Washington Public Power Supply System, which undertook to build five large nuclear power plants in the 1970s. Other groups, including the city of Seattle, questioned the feasibility of the project. In July 1976, the Seattle City Council voted against participating in the building of the project 4 and 5 nuclear power plants based, citing a 12-volume study that recommended

750-522: The project for a period of 40 years. In September 1962, Congress passed and President John F. Kennedy signed a bill authorizing construction of a new dual-purpose nuclear reactor (the N Reactor ) on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation . It was designed to produce both weapons-grade plutonium and steam to power turbine generators – thus its designation as a dual-purpose reactor. With support from U.S. Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson ,

780-585: The risks and rewards of building and operating electrical generating facilities. The power was to be provided, at the cost of production, to the ratepayers of those public utilities participating in the agency's new projects. The first generating source to be developed was the Packwood Lake Hydroelectric Project, located in Lewis County, Washington State approximately 20 miles south of Mount Rainier. The 27.5 megawatt project

810-713: The story about to run in The Washington Post , and called to intervene but they ignored his attempt and ran with the leak from State falsely attributed to Hodel. Hodel was born in Portland, Oregon , the son of Philip E. Hodel and Theresia R. Brodt Hodel. He attended Harvard University . In 1957 he married Barbara Beecher Stockman, who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , and attended Wellesley College . She married Hodel during her senior year. They moved to Oregon after graduation and Hodel earned his J.D. at

840-577: Was continued under Manuel Lujan Jr. in the George H. W. Bush administration . It was rescinded in 1997 by Secretary Bruce Babbitt . In an article, Hodel wrote, "Throughout President Reagan's eight years, his secretaries of the Interior pursued these objectives within the framework of his and their conviction that America could have both an improving environment and an adequate energy supply. We did not and do not have to choose between them, as some have contended." While secretary, Hodel proposed to undertake

870-492: Was designed to produce electricity while protecting the natural environment. Packwood continues to produce power into its sixth decade of operation. In February 2008, Energy Northwest submitted an application to renew the project's operating license to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission . In October 2018, FERC issued the renewed operating license to Energy Northwest to operate and maintain

900-502: Was to manage the transition from the founder, James Dobson , to his successor. Several years before being named president, Hodel had served on its board, and he remained on the board until October 2005. Hodel was also chairman of the company FreeEats.com, aka ccAdvertising, which has disseminated automated, interactive voice response (IVR) phone calls for conservative causes, the Economic Freedom Fund . As Secretary of

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