Yahoo and Microsoft were the first tech companies to reach out to Grant PUD in the mid-2000s about building data centers on what were hundreds of acres of corn and bean fields in the rural farming community of Quincy, Washington....
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Critical Crossroads BPA Faces Defining Day-ahead Markets Decision
Few topics have garnered more interest or passionate discourse among Bonneville Power Administration customers than BPA’s consideration of joining a day-ahead market. In recent years, the West has seen a power wonk’s version of a beauty contest in the form...
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Breaking Beige How Tacoma Public Utilities uses intentional design to strengthen communications
Utility communications have long favored safe, predictable design choices: muted colors, conventional layouts, and forgettable imagery. The rationale is understandable. Utilities are trusted with essential services where safety, compliance, and clarity matter. In an industry where reliability is paramount, bold...
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Training for the Worst Day How Chelan PUD is preparing employees to save lives
A woman screams for help outside a warehouse. A utility worker is on the ground clutching his leg, his jeans soaked in fake blood. Another employee rushes in, yelling that more people are hurt. Inside the chaos, Chelan PUD employees Adam...
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From River to Resilience The next evolution of community power in Idaho Falls
On the coldest mornings of winter, when temperatures plunge and furnaces strain to keep up, or during the long, dog days of summer, when air conditioners hum across the city, electricity demand in Idaho Falls, Idaho, surges to its highest...
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Legacy Power. New Energy. A rare look inside a century-old powerhouse marks a moment of transition for Jefferson PUD
Tacoma Power’s Cushman No. 1 powerhouse looks as if it were chiseled from the rock walls of the box canyon it resides in—a textbook vision of classical revival architecture common in the 1920s. Some 300 feet above the powerhouse, a...
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Women in Power in Power A Q&A with women leading public power utilities
This Women’s History Month, we celebrate all the women whose work is shaping public power today. Women across the industry play vital roles in serving their communities and advancing the mission of public power. In this Q&A, we are honored...
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Chugach Unveils Alaska’s First Community Solar Project
Solar energy in Alaska may seem counterintuitive to some. How can a state known for long, dark winters meaningfully benefit from the sun? Yet the growth of solar generation in Alaska over the past several years has demonstrated that solar...
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Forming, Storming, and Norming Working with stakeholders for right-of-way clearing success
Right-of-way clearing is one of those essential, often underappreciated operations that keeps communities safe, power reliable, and ecosystems resilient. But technical excellence alone won’t carry a program—stakeholder trust will. The path to that trust runs through “forming,” “storming,” and “norming,” and the glue that binds...
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Yahoo and Microsoft were the first tech companies to reach out to Grant PUD in the mid-2000s about building data centers on what were hundreds of acres of corn and bean fields in the rural farming community of Quincy, Washington....
Few topics have garnered more interest or passionate discourse among Bonneville Power Administration customers than BPA’s consideration of joining a day-ahead market. In recent years, the West has seen a power wonk’s version of a beauty contest in the form...
Utility communications have long favored safe, predictable design choices: muted colors, conventional layouts, and forgettable imagery. The rationale is understandable. Utilities are trusted with essential services where safety, compliance, and clarity matter. In an industry where reliability is paramount, bold...
A woman screams for help outside a warehouse. A utility worker is on the ground clutching his leg, his jeans soaked in fake blood. Another employee rushes in, yelling that more people are hurt. Inside the chaos, Chelan PUD employees...
On the coldest mornings of winter, when temperatures plunge and furnaces strain to keep up, or during the long, dog days of summer, when air conditioners hum across the city, electricity demand in Idaho Falls, Idaho, surges to its highest...
Tacoma Power’s Cushman No. 1 powerhouse looks as if it were chiseled from the rock walls of the box canyon it resides in—a textbook vision of classical revival architecture common in the 1920s. Some 300 feet above the powerhouse, a...
This Women’s History Month, we celebrate all the women whose work is shaping public power today. Women across the industry play vital roles in serving their communities and advancing the mission of public power. In this Q&A, we are honored...
Solar energy in Alaska may seem counterintuitive to some. How can a state known for long, dark winters meaningfully benefit from the sun? Yet the growth of solar generation in Alaska over the past several years has demonstrated that solar...
Right-of-way clearing is one of those essential, often underappreciated operations that keeps communities safe, power reliable, and ecosystems resilient. But technical excellence alone won’t carry a program—stakeholder trust will. The path to that trust runs through “forming,” “storming,” and “norming,”...
