Joint Action Agencies and State Associations

Included in APPA’s membership are joint action agencies and state and regional associations, which are also membership organizations comprised of public power utilities. These entities are still generally not-for-profit organizations that represent a group of utilities in a certain state or region.

Joint action agencies, or JAAs, encompass organizations that are designed to leverage economies of scale and strength in numbers to give their members access to a range of operational, business, and advocacy services that might not otherwise be accessible, especially to small and medium public power utilities. View our fact sheet on joint action agencies (PDF, 545 kb). 

State and regional associations also provide a variety of services to public power utilities, including state and federal policy advocacy, training, mutual aid coordination, engineering and energy services, and other business services.