High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Snohomish County Public Utility District is a public utility providing power to 318,000 customers in Snohomish County and on Camano Island, Washington. It provides water service to nearly 20,000 customers in the northeast section of the Snohomish County. The utility is the second largest public utility in the Pacific Northwest and the 12th largest in the United States. It is the largest of 28 PUDs in the state of Washington. The PUD is the largest utility customer of the Bonneville Power Administration, a major wholesale marketer of energy in the Western United States. The utility is one of the leaders in tidal and geothermal energy research in the Pacific Northwest, both of which are clean, reliable and plentiful in the region. Other energy comes from renewable hydroelectric sources, co-generation projects fueled by biogas and biomass and wind energy projects. The utility started offering incentives, loans and other resources for small-scale solar installations in spring 2009.