Avista’s resource plan focus is on conservation, natural gas capacity to meet 1.35% load growth

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Avista is turning more toward conservation and simple-cyclennatural gas turbine generation as least-cost resources to meet the company’snload growth of about 1.35% a year, according to a presentationnTuesday to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s powerncommittee by Avista’s manager of resource planning, Clint Kalich.nInland Power and Light, Washington state’s largest cooperative,nalso is using more conservation out of necessity, said KrisnMikkelsen, CEO of Inland, in a companion presentation to thencommittee. Mikkelsen and Kalich’s presentations are part of annongoing effort by the power committee to learn how the powerncouncil’s power plan, produced every five years, is used by utilitiesnin their own planning