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WILD FIRE

WILD FIRE

HERE

ANIMAL 7.8% | 16 MINUTES

EQUIPMENT 16.0% | 33 MINUTES

FIRE 3.3% | 7 MINUTES

LIGHTNING 1.0% | 2 MINUTES

MANMADE 8.1% | 17 MINUTES

PLANNED 10.9% | 22 MINUTES

POWER SUPPLIER 14.5% | 29 MINUTES

SNOW / ICE 10.9% | 22 MINUTES

TREE 7.2% | 15 MINUTES

UNKNOWN 15.5% | 32 MINUTES

WIND 4.8% | 10 MINTUES

OVERALL OUTAGE DURATION AVERAGE: 205 MINUTES

INLAND POWER IS THE LARGEST COOPERATIVE IN WASHINGTON STATE AND SERVES 13 COUNTIES IN EASTERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN IDAHO.

Our service territory includes 7,758 miles of line; 5,371 miles are overhead with 2,215 miles being underground and 172 miles of transmission line.

To put that in perspective, if you were to stretch that in a single-file line, it would reach from the northernmost point of Washington state to the southernmost point of South America. Those thousands of miles of line serve almost 46,000 meters, which works out to almost six members per line.

Our growth at Inland Power continues to shine. In 2022, we added nearly 1,343 new residential and commercial services on our lines. As we grow, resource adequacy becomes more of a challenge. As a load following customer of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), we work closely with BPA on load forecasts and power supply needs. Due to the cold weather we experienced in December 2022, Inland Power established a new system peak of 306 MW. This is up from the previous peak of 256 MW, which was set in 2017.

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