Avista Corporation is an American energy company which generates and transmits electricity and distributes natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers.

Trustees of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company asked for people to back them up in their project from New York to build a power station on the river.

The company renamed the attraction Natatorium Park and expanded it with a large swimming pool in 1895 and it became an all-purpose recreation site for the city.

[11] Washington Water Power expanded in Oregon and into California by acquiring the natural gas operations of CP National from Alltel in 1989.

In 2016, Avista proposed a two-year pilot program that would install 265 charging stations for electric cars in the eastern part of Washington state.

On February 20, 2002, the company voluntarily adjusted the amount originally allocated to IPR&D, stating its intent to restate its third quarter 1998 consolidated financial statements accordingly.