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In April 2025, Grant PUD’s Energy Services department, in partnership with 2nd Harvest, hosted another impactful Mobile Food Bank event in Ephrata, Washington. This biannual initiative by Grant PUD, launched in September 2023, continues to make a mea...

NOTE: This recap contains two separate audio recordings, Part A and Part B. Part B contains the action items and the second part of the conversation with land owners who are disputing the route of the Wanapum to Mt. View transmission line. Commission...

A 19-year Grant PUD employee with ample insights into energy-trading markets and the changing utility environment has been named to lead the team researching investments in new sources of energy to power Grant County into the future.Rich Flanigan wil...

Grant PUD’s General Manager John Mertlich was invited to attend the Marlin City Council meeting on March 17 to answer questions from residents in the area about Grant PUD’s recent purchase of 960 acres of farm and undeveloped shrub steppe land. The f...

(Editor’s note: This meeting took place at the Hydro Office Building, near Wanapum Dam and was not recorded.)   Grant PUD’s data center customers have been rapidly growing their power loads over the past year and are communicating their intentio...

(Note: Commissioners also announced the new general manager this week. Details are in a separate news release here.) Careful budgeting and disciplined spending resulted total expenditures of $464.4 million in 2024 – only $2.9 million below that year’...