Candidate for Board of Directors for Washignton County Public Utility District (Shantu Shah)

Shantu Shah, a consulting professional electrical engineer files for the Washington County Board of Directors Position No. 1

(PRWEB) August 22, 2004 -- Shantu Shah a resident of Raleigh Hills, Washington County, Oregon citizen for 25-years files for a position 1 on the new board of directors for a new Washington County Public Utility District to be voted in November 2004 elections.

Shantu has thirty-five years experience in management, opertions, maintenance, design, specifications, and construction of the distribution, transmission, and generation facilties for the residential, commercial, industrial,and utiilty clients.

Shantu has volunteered for public service as a member of Rotary International, Beaverton Club, Board member of KBOO Foundation community radio, 90.7FM, Oregon and hosts Enviornments East/West, a one-hour radio show on second Sunday of the month, and as a Board Member and Secretary for the Perfroming Arts Society of India, Kalkendra, Inc.

Shantu has acquired a Post Baccalaureate degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University and a Bachelor of Elecrical Engineering from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat State India and was a Graduate of Leadership Beaverton Charter Class of 1997-1998.

Shantu has worked for Gujarat Electricity Board, Gujarat, India; Duke Power Company, Charlotte, North Carolina; Nuclear services Corporation, Campbell, California; Morrison-Knudsen Company, Boise, Idaho; and Rust-International, Portland, Oregon in the design and installation of power, controls, and telecommunications facilties for a wide variety of utility, government, industrial, and commercial clients.

Shantu predicts that present PGE electric consumers could save as much as 40 percent of their present billings by switching to Washngton County PUD which would receive electricity directly from Bonneville Power Administration offering reduced rates to NorthWest public utilties and bulk power users starting year 2006.

Uitilities like PGE have a very large overhead of high salaried executives, administrators and profit minded shareholders, as well as high operationg costs of coal and gas powered generating stations compared to the very cheap hydro power produced through the Columbia River federal government dams owned bt the Citizens of the United States of America.

Shantu suggests voters to become educated through the BPA website and not to believe what the executives and rate-payers paid adversitsments and sound-bites of PGE would like you to listen, as they have their own axe to grind.

The "Public Power costs less."

"It does not matter how you slice the cake, you always taste it delicious." Shantu has several years of experience in the management, operations and design-construction of public and private utilities. "If you do not use your birth right to a cheap electricity you surely loose it like a water through the dam."

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