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Community Engagement
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) partnered with Sunrise Marketplace Business Improvement District (SMP) to wrap more than 20 SMUD transformer boxes with nearly 50 pieces of art throughout Sacramento’s business district. “MasterPieces in the MarketPlace” utilizes SMUD’s Transformer
Navajo Tribal Utility Authority workers installing a distribution wire
Generation
The founding of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority and how its founding vision to have the utility serve the Navajo Nation continues today.
triptich of photos from different eras in history
Community Engagement
Celebrate the different reasons and processes through which public power utilities have come into existence across three eras: early electrification, after the development of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and in the 21st Century – and how each promotes staying community owned.
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Bonds and Financing
The New York Power Authority sold more than $1.2 billion in bonds to finance capital expenditures related to the Power Authority’s transmission assets and other capital projects, NYPA reported on May 29.
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Security
Any utility key accounts manager knows that commercial and industrial customers never want their operations disrupted by power outages, which results in lost profits and harms their reputations.
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Community Engagement
In remarks made on the first day of the American Public Power Association’s Public Power Connect Virtual Summit and Business Meeting, Joy Ditto, APPA’s President and CEO, said that the power sector must be committed to increasing diversity at every level and detailed how APPA is moving to strengthen and renew its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Desmarie Waterhouse, the American Public Power Association’s Vice President, Government Relations & Counsel, and other APPA government relations staff on June 8 provided a detailed overview of public power’s legislative priorities including assistance for utilities related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
cyber
Security
In a recent survey of utility executives by Siemens and the Ponemon Institute, more than half of the respondents said that cyber attacks are on the rise. In addition, the nature of the attacks has shifted in recent years.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Supporting virus research, securing critical infrastructure and stabilizing the energy markets are all key actions that the Department of Energy has taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mark Menezes, Under Secretary of Energy, said on June 8.
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Bonds and Financing
Except in extreme scenarios, rising wildfire risks are manageable for California's publicly owned electric utilities, Moody's Investors Service said in a recent report.