So the answer is to generate more power EWEB doesn't need?  You're kidding, right? It's already losing $15m per year on its generating plants and you want more losses? Wow.  That's the mentality that Lawson inherited. Poor dude is already getting chewed up by those that want to keep eweb's rates at some of the highest in the Pacific northwest.  Don't give him groovy water wheel ideas the community can't afford.