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In a recent appearance before state lawmakers in Michigan, Katie Abraham, Executive Director of the Michigan Municipal Electric Association (MMEA), and Dave Koster, General Manager at Holland Board of Public Works, highlighted the wide array of benefits that public power provides to customers in the state.

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.

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

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

In a recent post on the public power utility’s website, Matt Lentsch, Executive Director of Development & Governmental Affairs for the City of Mishawaka, Indiana, highlights how the Mishawaka Utilities Electric Division’s (MUE) hard work and dedication maintains high levels of reliability for the city.

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.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power on the evening of Jan. 7 reported that it was all-hands on deck responding to the impacts of the damaging winds in the City of Los Angeles, Calif.

Crew members from Washington State’s Snohomish County PUD remain in Guam, helping with power restoration efforts after a typhoon knocked out power to a vast swath of customers in May.

With Winter Storm Fern forecast to bring extreme cold, heavy snow, and damaging ice from the Southwest through the Mid-Atlantic, extending into the Northeast, public power utilities, investor-owned electric companies and electric cooperatives have been coordinating closely to ensure the industry is prepared to safely restore power as quickly as possible for any impacted communities.