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Crews are actively responding to power outages resulting from continued heavy rains combined with breezy conditions and wind gusts up to 40 mph.

With flood warnings in many parts of our service area, there’s the potential for road closures and other access issues that will delay our ability to restore power. Flooding and landslides may also impact our natural gas infrastructure.

We understand how difficult it is to be without power. Crews will remain in the field to assess damage and restore power as long as it is safe. If your power goes out, we’ll work around the clock to restore it as quickly and safely as possible.

Visit PSE’s Alerts and Advisories page for information on our response efforts: pse.com/alerts.


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Safety first. Never touch or go within 35 feet of downed power lines because they might be energized. Call PSE at 1-888-225-5773 or 911 to report problems.

Report and track power outages online

Goldendale Generating Station

As an important part of Klickitat County, our Goldendale Generating Station not only creates good local jobs, but also provides substantial tax revenue for local public services. In addition, we support local charitable organizations.

Goldendale Generating Station facts

Goldendale came online in 2004 and PSE purchased it in February 2007. The plant employs modern, “combined cycle combustion turbine” technology that allows it to generate electricity using both a natural gas cycle and, from the exhaust heat of its power-generating turbines, a steam cycle. The two-stage process boosts operating efficiency, lowers fuel costs, and cuts air emissions. Combined-cycle plants like Goldendale operate more efficiently than simple-cycle gas-fired plants. The latter typically run only to help meet daily or seasonal peaks in customers’ power usage, while combined-cycle plants often operate to help meet utility customers’ base power requirements. They also complement hydro and wind-powered generation because gas-fired plants can operate on a firm schedule, while power generation from hydro and wind-generating facilities is dependent upon the seasons.

  • The Goldendale Generating Station in Klickitat County is one of eight natural gas-fired power plants that we own and operate in Washington.
  • The station produces 277 megawatts of electricity at maximum capacity — enough to meet the needs of 200,000 households.
  • The plant uses a combined-cycle combustion turbine technology, a two-stage process that boosts operating efficiency, lowers fuel costs and reduces air emissions.
  • We employ 18 full-time workers at this facility.
Goldendale Generating Station