Mr. Ed Sheets

As it turned out, it was the office of destiny: Chief of staff Jerry Grinstein went on to huge corporate positions at Burlington Northern and Delta Air Lines; Michael Pertschuk became director of the Federal Trade Commission; Ed Sheets became head of the Northwest Power Planning Council.

Also Edward Sheets, then-executive director of the Northwest Power Planning Council (NPPC), which first implemented least-cost energy planning on a regional scale; and Richard Watson, former head of the Washington State Energy Office.
...
The best explanation is provided by Ed Sheets and Dick Watson in their essay, Least Cost Transportation Planning: Lessons from the Northwest Power Planning Council (January 1994).

ED SHEETS , Economist , has been involved in energy and fish and wildlife issues in the Pacific Northwest since 1973.For the past four years Ed has worked as a consultant on energy and fishery issues for a variety of clients including federal , local , and tribal governments.He served as Executive Director of the Northwest Power Planning Council for 15 years.He also worked as director of the Washington State Energy Office , special assistant to the late Senator Warren G. Magnuson in Washington , D.C. , and was on the research faculty at the University of Washington.Mr. Sheets has a Masters degree from the University of Washington in Seattle , and a BA from Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island.

MARJIE LUNDELL , Program Manager , has managed programs involving community education for the past twenty years as Director of Cable Television Franchise Management for Multnomah County and as Oregon State Film Commissioner.

Edward SheetsFormer Executive DirectorNorthwest Power Planning Counciledsheets@transport.com503-222-1275

Ed Sheets, barely out of graduate school, staffed the nonprofit sector's effort to inform and engage the public concerning the Energy 1990 process.He then served as head of natural resources on Senator Warren Magnuson's staff, and helped shepherd the enactment of the Northwest Power Planning and Conservation Act of 1980, which mandated least-cost energy planning for the region.He was appointed the first executive director of the Northwest Power Planning Council (NPPC), and oversaw the successful implementation of least-cost planning for the Northwest, the first effort on such a scale in the world.

Sheets credits Shakow for first developing the methodology, and successfully demonstrating it, in Seattle.Otherwise, it would not have been attempted on a regional scale.
...
As an employee of the Bullitt Foundation, I solicited Ed Sheets to summarize the least-cost methodology as applied to electric energy, and describe how it might be adapted and applied to transportation.
...
It was developed and shaped by Ralph Cavanagh and NRDC, Don Shakow and Seattle Energy 1990, Ed Sheets and the Northwest Power Planning Council, and buttressed by the counsel of Ed Sheets, and the more recent efforts and modeling of Shakow and Dick Nelson, and ECONorthwest..

Ed Sheets, barely out of graduate school, staffed the nonprofit sector's effort to inform and engage the public concerning the Energy 1990 process.He then served as head of natural resources on Senator Warren Magnuson's staff, and helped shepherd the enactment of the Northwest Power Planning and Conservation Act of 1980, which mandated least-cost energy planning for the region.He was appointed the first executive director of the Northwest Power Planning Council (NPPC), and oversaw the successful implementation of least-cost planning for the Northwest, the first effort on such a scale in the world.

Sheets credits Shakow for first developing the methodology, and successfully demonstrating it, in Seattle.Otherwise, it would not have been attempted on a regional scale.NPPC's least-cost planning helped extricate the Northwest from the worse consequences of the WPPSS melt-down, enabling the region to cost-effectively reduce electric demand from an annual growth rate of six percent to one percent, even while the population soared and the economy boomed.Because investments in energy efficiency were much less expensive than investments in new generating plants, this greatly moderated energy prices, while the region struggled to absorb the huge WPPSS debt.

The field of transportation--with even more costly infrastructure, immense energy consumption, and harmful environmental impacts--could similarly benefit from least-cost planning, if only the transportation planning establishment, and policymakers, would let it.Their excuse is that transportation is just too complicated for least-cost planning.
...
As an employee of the Bullitt Foundation, I solicited Ed Sheets to summarize the least-cost methodology as applied to electric energy, and describe how it might be adapted and applied to transportation.

...
It was developed and shaped by Ralph Cavanagh and NRDC, Don Shakow and Seattle Energy 1990, Ed Sheets and the Northwest Power Planning Council, and buttressed by the counsel of Ed Sheets, and the more recent efforts and modeling of Shakow and Dick Nelson, and ECONorthwest..

"That is clearly Ed Sheets' social and political agenda," said Grace.
...
Sheets, who once served as executive director of the Power Planning Council, declined comment about the memo and referred all queries to NMFS coordinator Consenstein.

Lately, Sheets has been working as a consultant for EPA, USFWS, and the Bureau of Reclamation through a contract coordinated by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.Before that, he consulted with NMFS on decision process timeline issues.

Back in early November 1997, Sheets was briefing policymakers on the Three Sovereigns process and the multi-year implementation plan at the monthly IT meeting.Though he admitted they were his own numbers, he said at that time that total fish and wildlife costs could be as high as $637 million annually from 2002-2008, after the current MOA ran out in 2001, with a low range around $484 million.

Astoria, OR.- On Nov. 4th, Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse, Fisheries Biologist Jean Edwards and Economist Ed Sheets will present a workshop from 9am to 5pm at Clatsop Community Collegeís MERTS Campus in the Industrial Manufacturing Technology Center.
...
Ed Sheets Economist involved in energy and fish and wildlife issues in the Pacific Northwest since 1973.