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Customer Service
Lake Worth Beach’s electric director on how he has helped the utility achieve cost savings while investing in critical reliability upgrades.
Section of the US southeast with a red star over the relative position of Clayton's location in North Carolina
Community Engagement
How this town near North Carolina’s Research Triangle is building out its grid to meet the needs of a rapidly growing community.
Transmission towers
Reliability
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s 2026 Summer Reliability Assessment finds that record resource additions have strengthened readiness for the summer season, even as elevated risks remain in some areas.
storage batteries
Energy Storage
Austin Energy has entered into an agreement with Base Power to deploy 40 MW of residential battery storage across the utility’s service territory.
coal fired power plant
Reliability
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issued an emergency order directing the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, in coordination with Consumers Energy, to ensure that the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Michigan, remains available this summer.
A group on a tour of a power plant as part of PWC Day in Fayetteville, North Carolina
Community Engagement
How public power utilities are improving their communications strategies to build trust and strengthen community connection.
Firefighters in Cartersville, Georgia at a substation training by MEAG Power
Security
Why MEAG Power is training law enforcement and other first responders across its participant communities in Georgia on substation safety.
Participants going through the Safe Haven grid exercise in November 2025
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The importance of having a detailed emergency action plan — and how new templates from APPA can help utilities build their plans to improve emergency response.
transformer
Reliability
Virginia Transformer announced plans to build a new 600,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art power transformer plant at the Shoals Research Airpark in Colbert County, Alabama capable of producing a wide range of power transformers.
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Transmission
It is crucial for trade groups representing public power, investor-owned utilities and rural cooperatives to collaborate to advance permitting reform, Scott Corwin, President and CEO of the American Public Power Association.