50% action, 0% buzzwords

Sharp contrast with this week’s atrocious garble from the demonic “city”!

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Via Spokesman Review. Avista, the regional electric utility, previously said it was negotiating with a HUGE data center customer who would waste a large percentage of the company’s power. They got considerable feedback from public opinion, presumably from People Who Count. Now they’re “pausing”, or perhaps the customer is “pausing”. Their press release is clear and solid, exactly the right way to communicate with people.

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What’s new now is the scale of the data center requests and level of public interest. These unprecedented projects require new considerations for planning and coordination for all entities involved. Avista’s approach to providing energy service to any potential large data center development remains grounded in clear principles:

Customers come first: Existing customers will not pay for costs of serving a new large customer. Safeguards will be in place to prevent shifting of expenses to current customers.

System reliability is non-negotiable: There are required engineering studies and system upgrades that must be completed before any service begins.

Regulatory approval is required: Any final service agreement must be reviewed and approved by state regulators.

Growth must be responsible: Any large project must deliver net benefits for our customers.

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Performance verifies the words. For decades Avista caused wildfires instead of preventing them. Every windstorm made widespread long outages. Even rain caused outages when the dust on top of transformers turned to conducting mud. After the huge 2015 outage they started changing out equipment and trimming trees. Recent outages have been much shorter, and the rain effect no longer happens.