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New model, new experience
YOUR COOPERATIVE Area Service Reps cover Inland Territory ENERGY SERVICES Rebates
Enhancing your member experience through new territories nland Power is excited to announce that we have completed restructuring our operating model in order to better serve our members.
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high success and increased member satisfaction, we decided to implement this model throughout our entire service territory.
Inland Power has restructured our entire service area and warehouse locations to create area service representative (ASR) positions.
“Inland Power is excited to bring this change to better serve our members,” said Glen Best, chief operating officer for Inland Power. “This new crew structure allows for immediate response to provide our members the kind of member experience they have come to expect from Inland Power.”
The goal of an ASR position is to have one lineman assigned to a specific designated area of Inland’s vast service territory. The ASR is responsible for the power quality, maintenance and outage restoration for all equipment within their designated territory. The designated ASR will live within their designated territory and will have a company truck assigned to them to take home, allowing for an immediate response during non-business hours or any emergency or outage situation. Earlier this year, Inland Power announced it was testing the ASR model at the Davenport and Colfax warehouses. After experiencing
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iving in the Pacific Northwest certainly has its advantages. Our landscape is extremely diverse and offers outdoor enthusiasts a wide variety of activities.
In certain cases, members reported their ASR being the first responder on the scene, arriving before other emergency crews.
Our waterways are second to none in terms of providing energy, irrigation resources, recreation and commodity transport access.
In addition to the ASR model, Inland Power continues to have crews stationed at the Four Lakes and Trentwood warehouses.
The river dam system on the Columbia and Snake Rivers has been a point of contention between dam supporters and those who believe the dams cause more harm than good for decades. This crucial system is under fire, both from politicians and special interest groups.
As always, Inland Power has full coverage and support from our other crews when needed for larger projects or any large-scale outage restoration efforts.
By keeping the dams in place, we are ensuring that the state’s economic
integrity remains intact. To start, the dams provide hydropower, which is a crucial resource for the Pacific Northwest. Hydropower is carbon-free, renewable, cheap and reliable. Since other renewable resources such as solar and wind power do not yet have storage capacity available, it would be unwise to rely on resources that only produce energy intermittently.
above. Washington state will absolutely not be able to become 100% carbon-free by 2045 without the use of hydropower. Industries such as energy, agriculture and maritime would also experience catastrophic impacts if dams were breached. As a result, Washington citizens would suffer from job loss, a steep rise in energy prices–along with the serious threat of rolling brown outs and food shortages.
Dam removal creates the threat of rolling brown outs.
With utilities having to reach goals for both the Energy Independence Act and the Clean Energy Transformation Act, hydropower must be part of the equation for the benefits mentioned
A lot of attention has been paid to improving fish and wildlife safety and well being at dams on the Columbia Continued inside