Quick Fact: Essential Public Facilities
ESSENTIAL PUBLIC FACILITIES is a legal category for hard to site public serving facilities that local codes can outline mitigation conditions but without outright prohibition. Essential Public Facility status ensures …
Read more Quick Fact: Local Energy Forecast
San Juan County’s Comprehensive Plan (Comp Plan) calls for reducing our dependence on the mainland with local renewable energy. Throughout this document, OPALCO is using the Comp Plan to forecast …
Read more Quick Fact: San Juan County Comprehensive Plan
What is the Comp Plan? The Comp Plan is an important guiding document for managing land use and infrastructure in a coordinated and sustainable way. In Washington State, counties are …
Read more Quick Fact: Our Energy Future – Why is OPALCO concerned?
We need renewable energy if we want to maintain power reliability. Our community needs to come together to find acceptable locations for these projects. If we keep saying no to …
Read more Why Local Renewable Projects? Mainland Power Demand Will Soon Exceed Supply
OPALCO is Preparing for Mainland Rolling Blackouts Did you know the Northwest power grid almost crashed during the January 2024 cold snap? As the hydro system hit capacity, the region …
Read more Quick Fact: Data Centers
Data centers have been in the news lately as AI applications proliferate. They use a lot of energy to power and cool sophisticated computing systems. How data centers fit into …
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