The Seattle area utility will purchase five percent of the total output from the PUD's Rock Island and Rocky Reach dams for five years at a fixed rate.
Washington D.C. - The U.S. could get more clean energy through hydroelectric dams if a bill being proposed by Congressman Dan Newhouse passes.
Newhouse is co-sponsoring the bill with congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rogers.
"The main reason for this is to help the rest of he country realize what we know well in Washington, that hydroelectric dams and hydro power are an essential part o