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Since the beginning of COVID-19 hitting our country, there has been much talk about heroes. Yet, despite their efforts – whether responding to a pandemic, a severe storm or a...
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.
Jolene Thompson, president and CEO of American Municipal Power, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio, was installed as chair of the American Public Power Association Board of Directors during APPA’s Public Power Connect: Virtual Summit & Business Meeting on June 9.
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
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.
Joy Ditto reflects on the importance of in-person interactions and how connecting via technology leads to missed cues and context.
A committee in the Maine Legislature on July 24 voted to recommend the formation of a task force that would create a proposed transition and business plan for a state consumer-owned electric utility.
One of the many things that makes public power utilities unique are the strong bonds that they have forged with their communities. People who work at public power utilities are always ready to pitch in and help in any way they can when their community needs them. Job descriptions don’t matter. It’s
APPA President and CEO Joy Ditto reflects on her recent travels to Kansas and Oklahoma to reconnect with members and the public power community in person.
How public power utilities are finding ways to develop, recruit, and retain people with the right set of skills needed for now - and well into the future.