2020
Washington state law requires utilities to publish their fuel mix for customers.
The state’s reported 2020 results for the resources serving Chelan County PUD’s retail customers are shown below:
| Hydroelectric |
99.98% |
| Wind |
0.02% |
| Total |
100% |
Chelan County PUD does own a share of the Nine Canyon Wind Project. However, the report shows the PUD having a small amount of 0.02 percent wind energy in its fuel mix. That is since the PUD has sold the bulk of the environmental attributes associated with the wind project, so wind generation reported in the disclosure is minimal.
Although Chelan County PUD sponsors the Sustainable Natural Alternative Power (SNAP) program, solar generation is not reported on the fuel mix. Solar panels and wind turbines at schools, nonprofit agencies and private homes and businesses that are part of the SNAP program in Chelan County are not owned by the PUD or purchased with District funds, so SNAP solar generation cannot be counted in the PUD’s fuel mix. In the Northwest Power Pool (Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho) there isn’t enough solar generation to make up even a fractional percentage of the total generation.