Our Commitment to Reliability
From providing energy for customers’ homes and businesses to responding when severe weather hits, maintaining reliable service is an integral part of what we do every day. In fact, we keep the lights on 99.9% of the time! We maintain and monitor the grid, ensuring you have the energy you need every hour of every day when you flip that switch. We also plan for the future to make sure your energy stays safe, reliable, and affordable for generations to come.
Ensuring Reliable Service
Protecting the Grid
We work hard year-round to protect poles and other equipment from wildfire and reduce fire risk.
Clearing Vegetation
From forests to neighborhoods, we manage vegetation to help prevent outages caused by trees in lines.
Planning Long-Term
We plan for the future, looking out 20 years to ensure your energy stays reliable and affordable as our region grows.
Investing in Transmission
We are investing in transmission projects like Boardman to Hemingway to help move energy throughout the region when and where it’s needed.
Working Locally
We maintain thousands of miles of power lines and hundreds of substations to serve our 24,000 square mile service area.
Upgrading Underground Lines
We constantly improve our system and are replacing aging underground power lines with more modern, reliable lines.
Monitoring and Balancing the Grid
Energy is a real-time business. When you flip the switch, the energy that comes to your home, farm or business was generated just a fraction of a second ago at a power plant that might be hundreds of miles away. We work hard to keep that system of supply and demand in precise balance around the clock.