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Nebraska public power utilities were hard at work over the weekend restoring power in the wake of severe storms and tornadoes that hit the state. Nebraska Public Power District on Saturday, April 27, reported that it was sending a 22-man team to Omaha to aid Omaha Public Power District in power

With Message Broadcast’s communications platform, utilities can create and send personalized emergency messages through its Enterprise Omnichannel Notification System.

The Board of Commissioners of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power approved a motion that will result in the integration of biodiversity initiatives and nature-based solutions throughout the Department’s operations.

The American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments program recently approved funding for various grants and scholarships. The DEED program approved $909,041 in funding for 31 projects. The action took place at DEED’s Spring 2024 meetings held in New Orleans, La

Participants in the Western Resource Adequacy Program published a letter on April 22 in which they said they will not elect to move to a binding program in summer 2026. Instead, participants will propose a revised WRAP transition plan with the goal of beginning a binding program in 2027.

Final energy tax credit transferability rules released last week by the Treasury Department make clear that a partnership made up of one or more applicable entities, including public power utilities, can elect to transfer certain energy production tax credits they could also claim through elective payment.

Georgia Power on April 29 declared that Plant Vogtle Unit 4 has entered commercial operation. Vogtle Unit 3 entered commercial operation on July 31, 2023. Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 are two 1,100-megawatt nuclear reactors.

As she prepares to join the growing ranks of female public power utility lineworkers, Rylee Gunn, an apprentice with Florida public power utility Fort Pierce Utilities Authorities, gained valuable experience while participating in the APPA Lineworkers Rodeo in Lafayette, Louisiana this month.

Thanks to TextPower, utility customers of Georgetown, Texas, can now text the utility if their service goes out instead of calling in and being put on hold or leaving a voice message that a utility phone operator then has to retrieve and listen to in order to log the pertinent information into the utility’s outage management system.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the New York Power Authority have started construction of New York State’s largest onsite solar plus storage project -- a solar carport canopy at John F. Kennedy International Airport.