douglas county PUD

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 ...

Douglas County PUD is warning the community about scammers targeting customers. Douglas PUD was notified this week of a customer who received a letter from Home Warranty Solutions stating that the customer's warranty, to which 'Public Utility District #1' is the lender, has expired ...

A squirrel is to blame after a power outage in East Wenatchee Saturday cut power to approximately 1,600 customers. Douglas County PUD says the outage began around 10:00 a.m. and last about an hour or so before power was restored. No details were posted on their Twitter page as to where the squirrel was found, but it is known to happen that they can knock out power ...

The Douglas County PUD recently received $250,000 from the state's Supplemental Capital Budget to help build a renewable hydrogen pilot project. Washington state PUDs were granted authority to produce, distribute and sell renewable hydrogen last legislative session ...

Douglas County PUD Commissioners adopted a new rate schedule Monday afternoon that will see a dramatic rise in rates for data centers and cryptocurrency operations. Public Information Officer Meaghan Vibbert said high-capacity loads will experience an increase in rates every six months until 2025...

Ron Skagen, Douglas PUD Commissioner, was named to a three-year term on the American Public Power Association’s (APPA) Policy Makers Council (PMC) by its Board of Directors.  The Policy Makers Council assists APPA in promoting federal legislation that is important to public power utilities like Douglas PUD and opposing harmful legislation.  It also ...

Douglas County PUD met Monday and made several changes to their proposed rate structure that targets mainly non-diverse loads like data centers and cryptomining operations. PUD staff are now suggesting that the proposed changes begin July 1st, 2020 instead of early January 2020 to give current customers that use non-diverse loads more time to adjust...

The Douglas County PUD is proposing a rate adjustment that would primarily affect large-scale crypto operations and data centers. Significant load increases, an anticipated decrease in supply on the market, and the need to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into Wells Dam are the utility's reasons for the move...

Douglas County Commissioner Kyle Steinburg is asking the Douglas County PUD to hold off on any rate increases until after a more accumulative and inclusive study, particularly when it comes to data centers. The utility is proposing a rate increase of 10 percent on data centers and 20 percent on cryptocurrency operators beginning on January 1st in addition to three percent increases in Schedule 1 t

The Douglas County PUD established a public hearing time for the proposed electric rate and pole attachment rate adjustments. The hearing is set for December 9th at 1:30. "This has to do with our large, non diverse loads and also the pole attachment rate, which is the rate that we charge different providers that have services on our poles," said Meaghan Vibbert, public information office