The power producing dams in your state are not owned by private companies.
And any agreements that your power companies may have with the federal government are not relevant as to why the people of Washington State would be abel to dictate to these private companies what they can and cannot do.
And being the the federal taxpayer paid for those dams to be built in Washington State, can citizens of California, New York, Florida and Texas dictate the prices that people in Washington State pay for electricity?
I said that I wasn’t sure if the state actually sold the dams or just the rights to operate the dams, but all power companies in the state are regulated by some commission that approves or disapproves rate increases and those increases usually go to the voters first.
It’s the way it is set up here. We don’t need any “green energy”, we have enough hydro-power to supply all the power that the state needs, but they have never operated the dams at full capacity.
Wind energy is a scam. There is no money in it, outside of federal subsidies. Take away the federal subsidies and the whole wind energy industry would collapse. Studies indicate that 80% of the wind turbines that are erected cease to be operated within ten years of construction, so they just sit there, as giant eye sores.