A chart of the Grant County Public Utility District’s power queue — requests for future electric power — showing requests for future power since September 2016. The area of the chart marked ‘utility’ refers to power requests from port districts like the Port of Quincy and the Port of Moses Lake.
April 21, 2022
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Future power demand looks ‘Insanely large’ for Grant Co.
Industrial need causes increased requests
MOSES LAKE — As Grant County grows and more businesses and industries locate production in the area, the Grant County Public Utility District said it is seeing record requests for future electricity. “We’re near system peak,” said Louis Szalbya, leader of Grant PUD’s large power solutions team and the 2022 president of the Grant County Economic Development Council. “It took us 75 years to get to 950 megawatts (of demand), and now we have requests for 1,700 megawatts (in total, with the existing 950 megawatts).”