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Joy looks back on a year of reflection and reaction - and with gratitude for essential workers and national infrastructure.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The Northeast Public Power Association recently completed another successful Lineworker Rodeo, which took place in Hull, Mass.
Grid Modernization
How APPA is preparing for the national policy and regulatory agenda ahead and how small utilities affect the national public power profile.
In a recent Q&A with Public Power Current, Andy Pollard, Electric Director for the public power community of Harrisonville, Missouri, detailed how the city’s utility has maintained high levels of reliability and the key role that the Electric Department’s lineworker crew plays in ensuring reliability.
As the voice of public power in our nation’s capital, the American Public Power Association strives to harness the strength of unity behind our public service mission to advocate for member communities. Outside of advocacy, in the mutual aid and security coordination work we do, members experienced
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Customer Service
Customers think about their utility more when the power is off than when it is on. When the lights go out, they’re on their phones, scrambling to know what’s happening. In this narrow window of time, utilities have the best chance to impress or frustrate their customers. Communications are put to
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council (ESCC) has updated a resource guide it has developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to add new sections that address planning considerations for contact tracing during mutual assistance and the use of contact tracing for workplace reentry.
Community Engagement
It’s hard to believe that 15,000 families in the Navajo Nation still have no electricity. However, between March and May 2019, more than 200 families experienced something most people in the rest of the U.S. probably don’t remember — watching the lights in their home come on for the first time at
Reliability
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority and the SAGE Development Authority (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe) are among the recipients of recently announced funding from the Department of the Interior to electrify homes.