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4/4/2007

Riazzi named to state climate change panel

Chelan County PUD General Manager Rich Riazzi has been named to the Washington Climate Change Challenge Advisory Team, which will consider a range of policies and strategies that may be adopted to achieve the goals Gov. Christine Gregoire established in her executive order on global warming earlier this year. Steve Reynolds, CEO, president and chairman of Puget Sound Energy, was also named to the 20-member panel.

State Department of Ecology Director Jay Manning and Juli Wilkerson, director of the state Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development, will chair the committee and are to make recommendations to the governor by February 2008.

PUD to spill less water in 2007

Thanks to the PUD’s habitat conservation plans, for the first time since the 1980s, with the exception of the 2001 power crunch, the PUD will not spill for downstream spring fish migration at Rocky Reach Dam.

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Realignment shifts departments; trims spending

General Manager Rich Riazzi announced ChelanCountyPUD management changes March 21 that realign key operating areas and save the utility more than $600,000 over the next two years compared to salary and benefits previously budgeted.

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PUD commissioners hear choices for District's financial future

General Manager Rich Riazzi has outlined for PUD commissioners three possible approaches to Chelan CountyPUD’s finances for the next five years.

The presentation was made March 19 at the third in a series of community strategic planning sessions held at the Confluence Technology Center.

The approaches included detailed analysis of the impacts from choices ranging from raising electric, water and sewer rates to slowing the fiber build-out and what effect the choices would have on key financial measurements through 2012.

What's ahead for renewable energy?

A panel of local experts including the PUD's Jim White, Energy Services engineer and creator of the SNAP program, will present information on solar, wind, biomass and hydropower at a program on April 19.

"The Future of Renewable Energy Sources" is set for 7:30 p.m.on April 19 in the PUD auditorium at 327 N. Wenatchee Avenue. Admission is $5 (free for students and teachers with ID).

Also speaking are Randy Brooks, Brooks Solar in Chelan, and Jake Lodato of the Clean Cities Coalition. It a joint presentation of Chelan CountyPUD, Barn Beach Reserve and Tierra Learning Center.

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