About Us

Northwest Requirements Utilities (NRU) is a non-profit trade association founded in 2002.

Our 53 member utilities are located in 7 states served by BPA: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, and California. This includes 13 municipals, 7 PUDs, and 33 cooperatives.

Our stated purpose is to “promote and advance the common business interests of smaller, primarily non-generating, consumer owned or publicly owned, electric distribution utilities which serve end-use electric consumers within the marketing area of BPA, and that rely on BPA as their primary supplier of wholesale power and transmission services.”