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Community Engagement
During Platte River Power Authority’s annual board meeting, the board of directors appointed Gary Hall, mayor of the Town of Estes Park, Colorado, to serve as the wholesale power provider’s board chair. The board also appointed Sharon Israel, utilities director for the City of Loveland, Colorado, to
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Workforce
The following is a transcript of the March 2, 2026, episode of Public Power Now. Learn more about subscribing to Public Power Now at Publicpower.org/Podcasts. Some quotes may have been edited for clarity. Paul Ciampoli Welcome to the latest episode of Public Power Now. I'm Paul Ciampoli, APPA's news
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Electricity Markets
The PJM Interconnection has released a paper that outlines PJM’s proposal to address the need for a Reliability Backstop Procurement.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority in partnership with the American Public Power Association has officially launched the 2026 Light Up Navajo VII.
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Bonds and Financing
Fitch Ratings has upgraded American Municipal Power Meldahl Hydroelectric Project bonds to “A” from “A-,” the rating agency said on April 10.
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Minnesota public power utility Owatonna Public Utilities on April 13 announced the passing of its General Manager Roger Warehime, who served the utility for over two decades, joining OPU in 2004 and serving as General Manager since December 2018.
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Customer Service
Five years ago, Imperial Irrigation District (IID) relied primarily on social media to communicate outage information—without a way to reach customers directly.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority on April 13 announced the safe return of its second restoration crew, which arrived back to the Territory April 12 after spending several weeks in Jamaica supporting recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest ever recorded storms in the Atlantic.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
JEA hosted a two-day joint security and environmental oil spill training response exercise in conjunction with local, state and federal agencies on April 7-8.
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Reliability
The City of Augusta, Kansas, executed a planned outage to address identified disconnect switches needing replacement, KPP Energy reported in the March 2026 issue of its Lightning Round newsletter.