The Snake River dams only account for between 5-13% of that total. The NW Energy Coalition actually sponsored a study recently on what it would take to replace

The Snake River dams only account for between 5-13% of that total. The NW Energy Coalition actually sponsored a study recently on what it would take to replace that with a combination of wind, solar, energy efficiency, and demand response. Here's the homepage for the study: https://nwenergy.org/featured/lsrdstudy/ https://nwenergy.org/featured/lsrdstudy/ Some of their findings: * It's doable. * It'd cost about $1/mo on the average residential power bill in the region. * Maintenance for the existing lower Snake River dams runs about $245 million/yr, whereas their proposal would cost around $464 million/yr. * They projected a doable timeline of within the next 10 years.