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The Florida Municipal Electric Association on Jan. 30 announced its 2023 “Restoring Communities Awards,” which recognize public power utilities for their exemplary power restoration efforts to their own communities and for providing or receiving mutual aid following significant weather events or when fellow public power communities were in need of extra assistance.
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.
Public power utility crews deployed to parts of the country that were expected to be impacted by Winter Storm Fern.
Crews from the City of Tallahassee Electric Utility and Gainesville Regional Utilities are en route to support Lafayette Utilities System in restoration efforts following the anticipated landfall of Hurricane Francine on Sept. 11, the Florida Municipal Electric Association said on Sept. 10.
A July 31 windstorm with gusts up 100 miles per hour resulted in the largest outage event in the Omaha Public Power District’s recorded history. By the end of the week, OPPD and other utilities providing mutual aid had made significant power restoration progress.
Everyone on the Virgin Islands, and most electricity customers in Puerto Rico, appeared to be in the dark on Thursday, Sept. 7 after Hurricane Irma passed through the islands. As damage assessments began on those islands, people and power companies in Florida and other areas of the East Coast watched the Category 5 hurricane apprehensively as it moved closer to the U.S. mainland.
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority is sending an electric line construction team to Los Angeles, Calif., to assist with electric restoration for areas impacted by wildfires, NTUA reported on Jan. 16.
Amy Zubaly, Executive Director of Florida Municipal Electric Association, on Sept. 27 provided details on power restoration efforts underway in the state after Hurricane Helene hit Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on the evening of Sept. 26.