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About me
Randy Hardy provides strategic advice to utilities, wind/renewable generators, and other organizations in the current rapidly changing electricity environment. His experience has covered regulatory, legislative and transactional work, including thirteen years as CEO managing two large electric utilities - Seattle City Light and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA). He has dealt with the full range of challenges companies face in today's electricity markets, from dramatically downsizing formerly large workforces to developing flexible, innovative marketing strategies to resolving complex wind integration and solar problems. As CEO of BPA from 1991 to 1997, Mr. Hardy managed a $2.4 billion public corporation which supplies 40 percent of all electricity and over 75 percent of the high voltage transmission in the Northwest. Mr. Hardy made significant cost and marketing changes to stabilize that agency's financial position during fierce wholesale competition. He also managed BPA's recovery from the August 1996 West Coast power outage. At Seattle, from 1984 to 1991, Mr. Hardy instituted a comprehensive productivity improvement program, negotiated natural resource issues for the successful relicensing of three major dams on the Skagit River, and arranged for an ownership interest in the third AC transmission line between the Northwest and California. More recently, Mr. Hardy has assisted several Northwest wind and solar generators with their transmission and marketing arrangements in the Northwest, as well as in resolving their integration challenges with BPA and other transmission providers.
