Power Marketing Administration

A Power Marketing Administration (PMA) is a United States federal agency within the Department of Energy with the responsibility for marketing hydropower, primarily from multiple-purpose water projects operated by the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the International Boundary and Water Commission.

The federal government first assumed a role in power marketing in the early 1900s when power from federal water projects in excess of project needs was sold in order to repay the government's investment in the projects.^[1]

There are four federal PMAs, which market and deliver power in 34 U.S. states:

References

↑ "Power Marketing Administrations", U.S. Department of Energy website, accessed January 23, 2009

Agencies under the United States Department of Energy

Headquarters: James V. Forrestal Building Ernest Moniz, Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Deputy Secretary of Energy

Deputy Secretary of Energy	Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Energy Information Administration ARPA-E

Under Secretary of Energy for Energy and Environment	Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security	National Nuclear Security Administration

Under Secretary of Energy for Science	Office of Science OSTI

Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy	Office of Nuclear Energy

Power Marketing Administration	Bonneville Power Administration Southeastern Power Administration Southwestern Power Administration Western Area Power Administration

National Laboratory System	Ames Argonne NBL CNM APS ATLAS EMC Berkeley ALS MF NCEM NERSCC ESN JGI Brookhaven AGS CFN NSLS NSLS II RHIC Fermilab TeV Idaho RESL JLab Livermore NARAC NIF Los Alamos DARHTF NETL Albany NREL Oak Ridge SNS CNMS HFIR NCCS Pacific Northwest EMSL PPPL NSTX TFTR SRNL Sandia Z SLAC SSRL

Energy Department Facilities and Reservations	Fernald NLO Hanford K-25 Kansas City Plant Nevada Test Site Area 19 Area 20 NHHOR Pantex Rocky Flats SSFL ETEC SRE SRS SPR WIPP Y-12 Yucca Mountain

Independent Agency	Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

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