News

03/20/2020

Media Contact: (360) 664-1116 or media@utc.wa.gov
Docket number: UE-190882

Regulators deny $15.4 million from rate recovery related to 2018 Colstrip outage
Result of investigation into outage and replacement power costs

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Customers of investor-owned… Read more

Topic(s): Consumer, Energy
03/16/2020

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Docket numbers: TR-200098

State approves funds to improve safety at Adams County railroad crossing

OLYMPIA, Wash. – On Thursday, March 12 State regulators approved funds to improve the safety of a railroad crossing in… Read more

Topic(s): Rail
03/16/2020

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Docket Number: TE-200085

King County bus company fined $13,000 for safety violations

OLYMPIA, Wash. – State regulators have ordered a King County charter bus company to pay a $13,000 penalty for more than 100 violations of… Read more

Topic(s): Consumer, Transportation
03/12/2020

Docket Numbers: TR-191059

Rail safety grant approved for Thurston county railroad crossing

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Today state regulators approved more than $11,000 in grant funding for safety upgrades at the railroad overcrossing on Old Highway 99 near Offut Lake in Thurston County.… Read more

Topic(s): Rail
03/06/2020

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Docket Number: UE-150204 and UG-150205

Avista customers to receive $8.4 million refund after 2015 rate case appeal

Olympia, Wash. - The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission today directed Avista Corporation to… Read more

Topic(s): Energy
02/24/2020

Docket numbers: TV-190833 and TV-191056

State takes action against two illegal moving companies

OLYMPIA, Wash. – State regulators took action against two residential moving companies that have been operating without permits in Washington.

In February, an administrative law… Read more

Topic(s): Consumer, Transportation
02/19/2020

Media Contact: (360) 664-1116 or media@utc.wa.gov
Docket Number: UT-190574

UTC approves Frontier Northwest sale
Northwest Fiber LLC to purchase company’s Washington operations

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Today state regulators approved an all-party settlement in the sale of… Read more

Topic(s): Consumer, Telecom
02/11/2020

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State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council welcomes a new member

OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council welcomed a new council member Feb. 1.

Robert Dengel has been appointed by the… Read more

Topic(s): Energy