Franklin PUD GM and CEO Victor Fuentes Details Workforce Strategies Including Successful Student Intern Program Artwork

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Franklin PUD GM and CEO Victor Fuentes Details Workforce Strategies Including Successful Student Intern Program

September 22, 2025 • American Public Power Association

Victor Fuentes, General Manager and CEO of Washington State’s Franklin PUD, discusses the launch of a successful student intern program at Franklin PUD and other efforts at the PUD to proactively address workforce issues facing the utility sector in the latest episode of Public Power Now. He also addresses the steps that Franklin PUD is taking to meet Washington State's Clean Energy Transformation Act requirement that it develop a plan outlining how the PUD will transition to 100% clean electricity by 2045.