Here's one example of EWEB stupidity .....   "EWEB must pay Seneca a per megaWatt-hour rate that amounts to about three times what EWEB pays for power from its main contracted source, the Bonneville Power Administration, the records show. But EWEB has much more power than its Eugene customers need; the agency currently sells its surplus power on the glutted open regional wholesale market for only about a quarter of the rate EWEB pays Seneca for power, the records indicate."

More:  "A decade after eagerly signing a long-term contract to buy power from an Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington wind farm, the Eugene Water & Electric Board is now suing to try to limit how much energy it must buy from the farm, the largest in the Pacific Northwest."