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Hot Topic: Conservation a Key to Keeping Rates Reasonable

Washington electric cooperatives began investing in conservation efforts back when the term “green” referred to money, not clean energy. Conservation is a component of most energy bills in the state legislature and the U.S. Congress addressing climate change. It is a cost-effective way to reduce demand for energy, lessening the need to develop further resources thereby reducing members’ electric bills and our carbon footprint. (click here to read more)

Power Outages

In the past five years, our power has been on 99.9% of the time! However, there are circumstances outside of our control such as weather and equipment failure that can cause power outages. If you experience an outage, take the following steps to ensure power will be restored to your home or business quickly and safely.

1. Check your fuses and breakers in your switchbox panel.

2. Report an outage to NVEC at (509) 634-4571 day or night. Please give your name, address, time of the outage and any unusual weather conditions. If the outage occurs outside the regular business hours (M-F 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) your call will forward to an answering service. An on-call employee will be paged to respond to your outage or emergency.

3. STAY AWAY from downed power lines, trees entangled in lines and broken utility poles.