Join us for the July round-up of the Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, the board that decides where the Gorge's big energy projects go. A Skamania County councilmember asks who actually permits the underwater power line proposed for the Columbia, and the answer surprises. Plus a new director, two ownership transfers that drew zero public comment, a plan to make the state's one nuclear plant produce more power, and a correction we owe you.

In This Episode:

• Why there is no local county permit for the Cascade Renewable Transmission line, and where the real comment window is
• Marco Lowe steps in as EFSEC's new executive director, and there is no August meeting
• Columbia Solar and Goose Prairie Solar change owners, with a Norwegian sovereign wealth fund among the buyers
• A correction on Ostrea Solar's operating status
• Energy Northwest wants to uprate the Columbia Generating Station nuclear plant near Richland
• Horse Heaven's final turbine layout, and Badger Mountain's wait on the power grid

Resources & Links:

• Read the full written Dispatch at skamaniadispatch.com
• Our June EFSEC edition, for the resource-adequacy backstory: https://skamania-dispatch.ghost.io/the-northwest-is-nine-gigawatts-short-efsec-june-2026/
• Our special report on the Cascade Renewable Transmission line: https://skamania-dispatch.ghost.io/special-report-cascade-renewable-transmission-an-underwater-power-line-with-a-long-road-ahead/
• EFSEC agendas, packets, and project pages: efsec.wa.gov
• Comment on active projects: comments.efsec.wa.gov

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