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Grant County PUD announces a leadership change. The PUD says 19-year employee Rich Flanigan begins his new role as Chief Commercia Officer April 11. He is already serving as interim chief until his official start date. He replaces John Mertlich who will lead the utility as general manager & CEO. ...

The amount of money people have to spend on Christmas lighting in some areas of the country is enough to make the season NOT so merry and bright.

Nearly 3,000 homes and businesses in Chelan and Douglas Counties were without power at different times during the winter storm that rolled through the region late Tuesday and early Wednesday morning. "We had about a dozen outages across Chelan County," says Chelan PUD spokesperson, Rachel Hansen...

The two countries signed the Treaty in the 1960s to establish coordinated flood control and hydroelectric energy production throughout the Columbia River Basin.

The PUDs are part of an agreement the federal agencies have with Canada over the flow of water on the Columbia River, which is called the Columbia River Treaty.

The 26 Bitcoin miners and two data centers currently consume the same amount of electricity as the entire county's residential population.

Douglas PUD is moving forward to establish future electricity rates for customers that'll go into effect after 2025.

The utility has a new hydrogen producing plant coming online this year, which will produce the fuel to power the cars.

Those preferences come from a survey taken by scores of people who attended a Clean Energy Expo hosted by the PUDs of the three counties.

The Chelan, Douglas and Grant PUD's are hosting a Clean Energy Expo and bringing leading energy technology companies to the event to show possible energy production options for the future