About Us

Established in 1968, the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) is a California Joint Action
Agency. NCPA was established to build and operate jointly-owned power plants, to purchase
power and to coordinant and manage wholesale power for member cities and districts. NCPA
now operates geothermal, hydroelectric and combustion turbine power plants and trades bulk
power throughout the West.

NCPA membership is open to municipalities, rural electric cooperatives, irrigation districts and
other publicly owned entities interested in the purchase, aggregation, scheduling and
management of electrical energy. NCPA's members range from Redding in the north to
Lompoc in the south and from three Bay Area cities to small co-ops in the Sierras.

As NCPA has grown and its membership expanded, representation of members before
legislative and regulatory bodies in both Sacramento and Washington, D.C. has become an
increasingly important and necessary service.

For nearly three decades, NCPA has successfully provided economies of scale and skill
devoted to the purchase, generation, transmission, pooling and conservation of electrical
energy and capacity for its members. With the onset of electric utility restructuring, the Agency
has become a primary supplier of power scheduling and interchange management services to
power marketers and public agencies.