hydropower

The world is a tinderbox at the moment in a figurative sense.

Electricity demand in the county has been rising sharply since 2017 and will become much more acute with the electrification of cars and trucks.

The Seattle area utility will purchase five percent of the total output from the PUD's Rock Island and Rocky Reach dams for five years at a fixed rate.

It'll be one of a select few facilities in the entire country to produce green hydrogen and will be the first of its kind in Washington state.

PUD commissioners have approved the purchase of a second 5-Mega Watt electrolyzer, which is the machinery that produces hydrogen through a chemical process.