At least six Utah municipalities plan to send crews later this spring to help electrify the grid in the Navajo Nation, where an estimated 60,000 residents don’t have power.
Murray is the latest to join the Light up Navajo project after its City Council unanimously approved participation at a meeting Tuesday night. Heber, Lehi, St. George, Santa Clara and Washington — as well as cities from states across the country — also plan to send power employees to the Four Corners region in southern Utah during a week each from April 6 to May 18.
“Our initial hope has been answered in that utilities are answering the call to send crews here to the Navajo Nation,” Deenise Becenti, a spokeswoman with the Navajo Utility Tribal Authority (NTUA), told The Salt Lake Tribune in a recent interview.