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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Leaders of public power utilities across the U.S. recently detailed how their utilities were prepared to successfully respond and adapt to a myriad of challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Joint action agencies American Municipal Power and the Missouri Public Utility Alliance responded quickly to send crews from member cities to help public power utility City Water Light & Power in Springfield, Ill., restore power in the wake of storms that hit its service territory.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The number of customers without power in Florida has fallen after Hurricane Milton knocked out power to more than 3 million customers in the state. Crews from a large number of public power utilities have been hard at work helping to restore power.
Electricity Markets
At a meeting held during its annual conference in Palm Beach, the Florida Municipal Electric Association elected a new slate of officers to preside over the organization’s board of directors.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Over the last four weeks, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power electric crews and mutual aid partners have been working 16-hour shifts, 7 days a week, to safely restore electric service to the Pacific Palisades area, focusing their efforts on areas with the least damage to power distribution infrastructure, LADWP reported on Feb. 7.
Environment
Florida public power utility OUC gathered with construction partners, dignitaries, and community leaders to cut the ribbon on OUC’s state-of-the-art St. Cloud Operations and Maintenance Center.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
As of 9 a.m. Sunday morning, public power utilities have restored power to more than 95 percent of customers in Florida who experienced outages from Hurricane Milton, the Florida Municipal Electric Association reported on Oct. 13.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The Florida Municipal Electric Association on Sept. 25 provided details on how public power utilities are preparing for what is currently Tropical Storm Helene and is expected to make landfall this week as a hurricane.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Nebraska public power utility Lincoln Electric System has deployed staff and vehicles to help Omaha Public Power District with power restoration efforts after the July 31 storm caused historic outages in the area, LES said on Aug. 5.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Volunteers recently met at the Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation offices for an informational session to help them prepare them for when they journey to the Navajo Nation at the end of April to take part in Light Up Navajo VI.