douglas county PUD

Tribal members will be allowed to raise summer Chinook Salmon at the hatchery while the PUD will hold and relocate adult fish to areas on the Columbia River above the Chief Joseph or Grand Coulee dams.

PUD commissioners this week authorized nearly a million dollars to pay for a spare part and offer incentives for contractors working on power generating units at Wells Dam.

On Friday night, Pangborn Airport received winds up to 39-51 mph.

PUD Commissioners approved a plan this week to take bids for a construction firm and manager to build the plant and fueling station.

The plant will generate hydrogen that the utility plans to sell from a fueling station for hydrogen powered cars and for other industrial uses.

Two animal caused outages were reported Monday morning in Douglas County after a squirrel was blamed for an outage Sunday morning that left 1,000 people without power in Wenatchee.

The Douglas County PUD is warning residents about a suspicious message a customer received that could possibly be a scam. Spokesperson Meaghan Vibbert said the customer received an email about their "East Wenatchee Energy Consumption Status" for January of 2022 ...

Douglas County PUD said Tuesday that the utility will not come close to requiring any changes in service due to the ongoing heatwave. Before the recent heatwave began, the highest peak summer load was 169 megawatts in August of 2019. The record was then broken on three consecutive days this week with 179 megawatts Sunday, 183 Monday, and 192 Tuesday ...

An accident involving a dump truck and a power line caused delays for motorists traveling through Orondo via State Route 97 Monday afternoon. Douglas County PIO Meaghan Vibbert said the incident, which resulted in a drooping power pole, occurred around 2:40 and forced WSDOT workers to create a detour ...

The Douglas County PUD will break ground on its renewable hydrogen production facility at Baker Flats Monday. Contractor KRCI was awarded the contract to start moving dirt out the facility's site, as well as the site of a future substation in the area ...