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Greg Lange, compliance and reliability training manager at Grant County PUD, shows reporters Friday the utility's new Ephrata Control Center. The center allows monitoring of both PUD dams and the power grids. PUD employees who'll begin working in the center this week include: Three system control managers, the Mid-Columbia coordinator, a term trader, real-time scheduling supervisor, three power schedulers and one dispatch assistant. The 12 rear-projection screens, on the two video walls, are each 50-inch diagonal screens. Each of the center's video walls have six of the 50-inch screens, stacked two-high by three-wide. The project cost roughly $1.7 million with the construction of a temporary/backup center in Moses Lake.