Benton PUD encourages our customers and community to understand the importance of hydropower’s role in a clean energy future.

The worsening climate crisis has led to warnings, including the recent code red for humanity from the United Nations and a joint health alert on global warming from more than 200 medical journals worldwide.  From these warnings, it is clear that without our dams’ carbon-free attributes we could put the health of our planet and people in jeopardy. 

Yet, calls for the removal of productive carbon-free hydropower dams, like the lower Snake River dams here in Washington continue. 

Benton PUD is proud of our over 90% clean power supply made up primarily from hydro and nuclear power. Hydropower from the lower Snake River dams is carbon-free, low-cost, reliable power that our customers can count on in times of high electric demand.

We encourage you to join us and let your elected leaders know that dams shouldn’t be a partisan issue, and you want to preserve the lower Snake River dams!