
Washington
As the latest energy and climate debates continue, Consumer Energy Alliance remains an advocate for distilling the challenges ahead to implement all of the various state and federal renewable energy policy proposals and carbon reduction requirements. We hope communities and policymakers not only work to ensure reliability and economic efficiency, but a cleaner, more diverse energy mix that is able to access large amounts of energy, such as hydropower, without putting downward pressure on the budgets of families and small businesses.
hydro in our state
In 2019, Washington had the fourth-lowest average electricity retail prices in the nation, in large part due to hydropower generation.

The Grand Coulee Dam on Washington’s Columbia River is the largest power plant by generation capacity in the United States.

Washington generated the most electricity from hydropower of any state in 2019.

The Grand Coulee Dam is the seventh-largest hydropower plant in the world – providing 4.2 million households with electricity.
