31.02.710 Utility issues.
The utilities element of the County-wide Comprehensive Plan consists of the general location and distribution of electrical and telecommunication service throughout the County.
Electrical service to the citizens and businesses of Clallam County outside the City of Port Angeles is provided by the Public Utility District No. 1 of Clallam County. Formed in 1940, this publicly owned utility first began electric service in 1943. The P.U.D. provides standard retail electric service to residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, and schools. Power is supplied to the P.U.D. by the Bonneville Power Administration via delivery points at Fairmont, Happy Valley, Port Angeles, and Sappho. The P.U.D. delivers this power via a sixty-nine (69) KV sub-transmission system to twenty-six (26) distribution substations from which power is supplied to the urban and rural areas by seventy-one (71) distribution circuits. The system capacities in 1994 are:
Bonneville Power System 425,000 KVA
PUD substation power system 274,349 KVA
Latest system peak demand 151,263 KVA
Telecommunication service is provided throughout the County by several private companies, providing standard, long-distance and cellular communication service. The telecommunication network to Clallam County is vital to quality of life of its citizens and economic development of the community. Improvements to this network can enhance the ability to transfer information and enable more businesses to locate in the County.