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Acronym	Definition
BPA	Blanket Purchase Agreement
BPA	Business Process Automation
BPA	Business Professionals of America
BPA	Bonneville Power Administration
BPA	Bisphenol A
BPA	Buenas Practicas Agricolas (Spanish: Good Agricultural Practices)
BPA	Business Process Analysis
BPA	Bradford Park Avenue (football club; UK)
BPA	Business and Public Administration (various schools)
BPA	Building Permit Application (various locations)
BPA	Best Player Available (sports draft picks)
BPA	Bonnes Pratiques Agricoles (French: Good Agricultural Practices)
BPA	Beijing Platform for Action (est. 1995; China)
BPA	Building Performance Analysis
BPA	Bénéfice Par Action
BPA	Business Process Architect
BPA	Bind Parameter Addresses
BPA	Business Practices Alignment
BPA	Burst Promoting Activity
BPA	Buffer Pool Analyzer
BPA	Brighton Port Authority (music project)
BPA	British Parachute Association
BPA	Benefit Plan Administration
BPA	Brevet Professionnel Agricole (French: Professional Agricultural Certification)
BPA	Bijzonder Plan van Aanleg (Dutch: Special Planning Scheme; Belgium)
BPA	Bundespresseamt (German: Press and Information Office of the Federal Government)
BPA	British Pig Association
BPA	Black Police Association (various locations)
BPA	Best Practice Advisory (healthcare)
BPA	Border Patrol Agent
BPA	Best Poster Award
BPA	British Ports Association
BPA	Banca Privada d'Andorra
BPA	Bushels per Acre (agricultural yield)
BPA	Business Professional Association (various organizations)
BPA	Bachelor of Public Administration
BPA	Bunbury Port Authority (Australia)
BPA	Belief Propagation Algorithm
BPA	Boardgame Players Association (Greenville, SC)
BPA	Banco Português do Atlântico
BPA	Band Parents Association
BPA	Benefit Plan Audit (various locations)
BPA	Baseline Performance Assessment (US DoD)
BPA	Basic Process Algebra
BPA	Banque Populaire des Alpes (French bank)
BPA	Business Process Assessment
BPA	Business Performance Award (Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing)
BPA	Business of Performing Audits (media auditing)
BPA	Banque Populaire Atlantique (French bank)
BPA	Bridgeport Port Authority (Bridgeport, CT)
BPA	Bachelor of Performing Arts
BPA	Board of Professional Affairs
BPA	Bachelor of Professional Arts (degree)
BPA	Blood Pattern Analysis
BPA	Bowling Proprietors' Association of America
BPA	Black Psychiatrists of America
BPA	Boost Pressure Actuator
BPA	British Philatelic Association
BPA	Bowhunting Preservation Alliance
BPA	Business Process Activity(s)
BPA	Burst-Promoting Activity
BPA	Business Process Associates
BPA	Basic Purchase Agreement
BPA	Bilateral Payment Arrangement
BPA	British Pyrotechnics Association
BPA	BigPond Advance (Telstra)
BPA	Business Planning Analyst
BPA	Bratnia Pomoc Akademicka (Polish: Brotherly Help Academic)
BPA	Business Partners Alliance
BPA	Buckeye Pietenpol Association
BPA	Bahnpostamt (German: course post office; German rail cancel)
BPA	Business Publications Audit of circulations
BPA	British Petroleum Amoco
BPA	Back Panel Assembly
BPA	Boulangeries Patisseries Associées (French bakery)
BPA	Blocked Precedence Announcement
BPA	Bid Price Adjustment
BPA	Budapesti Autonóm Gyülekezet (Hungary)
BPA	Battlefield Psychological Activities
BPA	Blanket Purchase Authority
BPA	Business Pursuit Authorization
BPA	Bretagne Pièces Auto (French automotive parts wholesaler)
BPA	Beiträge zur Physik Der Atmosphäre (Contributions to Atmospheric Physics)
BPA	Broadcast Promotion Association
BPA	Backprojection Algorithm
BPA	Baden Powell Award
BPA	Bayesian Predictive Adaptation
BPA	Blade Pitch Angle
BPA	Budget Project Account
BPA	Boston Process Approach
BPA	Broad Purchase Agreement (Navy)
BPA	Billed Per Amount
BPA	Bin Packing Algorithm
BPA	Backup Path Adjustment
BPA	Branch Planning Analysis
BPA	Bernard Perreten Architecture, Inc (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
BPA	Grumman-Bethpage Airfield (Bethpage, NY)

References in periodicals archive

As the best way to proceed, the Bonneville Power Administration reviewed their options for rebuilding this bridge and selected the use of precast concrete bridge components for the deck.

Special Post Tensioned Bridge Slabs Produced for Pine Basin Bridge Replacement

Steve Wright is a former administrator and chief executive officer of the Bonneville Power Administration. Randy Roach is a former BPA general counsel.

Contract lock clause likely to prevent BPA sale

The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), headquartered in Portland, Ore., is a nonprofit federal power marketing agency under the U.S.

Hitachi Enters Agreement with Bonneville Power Administration, U.S. Department of Energy

The line is to allow the transfer of renewable and other energy sources from Montana, Idaho and other regional markets, and will allow Bonneville Power Administration to serve customers in Idaho, western Wyoming and Montana, and provide other operational benefits.

-NorthWestern Energy collaborates with Bonneville Power Administration

But the Bonneville Power Administration, the quasi-federal utility that runs the dams and distributes the electricity they produce, says that keeping them going is crucial even as wind plays an increasingly larger role in the region's electricity mix.

Dear EarthTalk: Many people oppose dams because they change the flow of rivers and affect the migrating patterns of fish and other species, but aren't they also a great renewable energy source?

Bonneville Power Administration for implementation of the Pacific Northwest Power Act, which reallocated the seven-State region's vast hydro and thermal power, and transmission capacity.

Clean Coal Technologies Hires Firm to Help with U.S. Expansion

Scott Simms, spokesman for the Bonneville Power Administration, another Pacific Northwest utility, likens the peaker boom to "building an extra freeway lane to accommodate one day of Super Bowl traffic."

Breaking the gridlock: the smart grid could fix a big barrier to efficiency--us

PNGC Power also intends to work cooperatively with OPT and to provide its expertise regarding grid interconnection and its experience in meeting the standards of the Bonneville Power Administration, which operates much of the region's power system.

Oregon electric co-op to pursue ocean wave power

The wide area measurement system (WAMS) carried out in western North America in 2005 is discussed in a lengthy chapter co-authored by five participants (they're with the Bonneville Power Administration, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and British Columbia Hydro & Power Authority).

Power system stability and control

A $10.7 million agreement--reached last fall by the Trust for Public Land, Bonneville Power Administration, and Plum Creek Timber Company--protects 1,761 acres from development in the spectacular valley in northwestern Montana between the Bob Marshall and Mission Mountains wilderness areas.

Community group gets forestland

Geothermal has signed a 20 year power sales contract for the first 10 megawatt power plant with the Idaho Power Company, is in negotiations for an additional 26 megawatts with new customers, and has secured transmission for up to 36 megawatts with the Bonneville Power Administration.

Can U.S. Geothermal turn an ancient energy technology into the solution to the global energy crisis?