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Salt Lake City was an early leader in electrification.
Electricity history is pretty interesting here in our state.
Electricity history is pretty interesting here in our state. Most of us in Utah get our power from Rocky Mountain Power (RMP). The company, which was originally known as Utah Power and Light, serves most of Utah and some parts of Idaho and Wyoming. It's a division of PacifiCorp and is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy.
We first got electricity in Utah in 1881 through a company called Salt Lake City Light, which made it the fifth city to have central station electricity.
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