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Enjoy Independence Day along the Columbia River at one of Grant PUD’s recreation areas, but please leave your personal fireworks at home. Personal fireworks are prohibited at all Grant PUD rec areas for everyone’s safety. That includes sparklers, vol...

Work is progressing on an “unbundling” strategy intended to ensure Grant PUD’s “core customers” – residential, ag and small business – get the lowest rates possible and industrial customers the rate-predictability and protection from large rate incre...

Utility-industry veteran Glen Pruitt has been named Grant PUD’s vice president of Legal, Regulatory and Government Affairs. Pruitt joined Grant in 2023 and eventually became senior manager of Compliance and Risk, heading a team that seeks opport...

Commissioners heard that Grant PUD’s Human Resources Department has launched an initiative to identify the critical employees the utility will need into the future and which roles, including engineers, that have been typically hard to fill. Their con...

An accomplished leader with more than 34 years’ experience in customer service across a wide spectrum of public-utility services, has been named Grant PUD’s vice president of Customer Experience. Andy Wendell joined Grant PUD in June 2024 as senior m...

Grant PUD has reorganized into two divisions to streamline its reporting structure for increased efficiency and better alignment with other public-power utilities. Both divisions report directly to General Manager and CEO John Mertlich, who worked wi...