SHELTON — Commissioners and staff members from Clallam County Public Utility District and two other districts will discuss how to keep a lid on rates while ensuring a dependable power supply as they negotiate new contracts with Bonneville Power Administration.
Clallam, Lewis County and Mason County public utility district representatives will talk over options during a public workshop at 307 West Cota St., Shelton at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
Electrical power in East Jefferson County is provided by Puget Sound Energy, not a public utility district.
They may discuss the possibility of joining with other utility districts to form a joint action agency, said Doug Nass, general manager of the Clallam district, on Friday.
The situation is this:
“All the BPA’s customers, of which we are one, will sign new contracts by the end of the year,” since the past contracts have elapsed, Nass said.
Clallam PUD — which also provides water, sewer and broadband services — has about 28,500 electricity customers in Sequim, Forks and the unincorporated areas of Clallam County.
The district buys 99 percent of its electrical power from Bonneville, the federal power marketing agency that supplies wholesale power to the Northwest.
Power availability has changed since the elapsed contracts were signed.
