The Grant County PUD's CEO and General Manager, Rich Wallen, is leaving the utility to return to his former employer in Georgia.
On Thursday, the PUD announced Wallen's move to Dalton-based Oglethorpe Power will be effective on March 31.
Grant PUD Commission President Terry Pyle says Wallen had already been communicating with the PUD's Board of Directors about his interest in taking the out-of-sta
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 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
The Grant County Public Utility District (Grant PUD) is asking for $5 million in federal funding to assist with the cost of upgrades that will make Priest Rapids Dam more resistant to earthquakes.
The project, which will anchor the spillway at the dam more firmly into the bedrock its built upon, is expected to cost the utility between $38 million and $45 million...