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Grant PUD sets the record straight: industrial rates
A message from your Grant PUD Commission
January 18, 2011
Over the past year, many customer-owners have shared their concern that some industrial companies in Grant County are receiving a “sweetheart deal” when it comes to their energy rates. Let us set the record straight: Grant PUD does not have contracts or sweetheart deals with industrials or with any of our retail customers.
When it comes to providing energy within the county, all customers are retail and as such are charged for their energy consumption based on the public rate schedule that applies to them (residential, irrigation, commercial, industrial, etc.). In addition to our retail load, we also provide wholesale power under long-term contracts with 22 power utilities that, in turn, provide energy to customers throughout the Northwest. These are the only energy contracts at Grant PUD.
As your elected representatives, it is our responsibility to set policy and rates for this utility. By state law, our rates must be fair and non-discriminatory. We are required to serve anyone that enters our service area and cannot turn down service to customers looking to locate in Grant County.
We appreciate the feedback we continue to receive from our customer-owners. When we hear misperceptions that run contrary to the goals and management of this PUD, we will continue to “set the record straight.”
Randy Allred, president
Tom Flint, vice president
Terry Brewer, secretary
Dale Walker, commissioner
Bob Bernd, commissioner
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Grant County Public Utility District is a Washington state municipal corporation that began electric service in 1942. Owned by the people it serves, Grant PUD generates and sells electricity to Grant County residents and millions of customers throughout Central Washington and the Pacific Northwest. The Priest Rapids Project, comprised of Priest Rapids and Wanapum dams, produces nearly 2,000 megawatts of clean, renewable and reliable electricity – enough to supply a city the size of Seattle. A leader in science based technology; Grant PUD is committed to finding effective measures for the protection, mitigation and enhancement of salmon, steelhead and other natural and cultural resources.
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