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Reliability
An RP3 designation is a sign of a utility's dedication to operating an efficient, safe, and reliable distribution system.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
How the Public Power Mutual Aid Network and Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council come together before, during, and after emergencies to continually improve grid resilience.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The Florida Municipal Electric Association announced its 2024 “Restoring Communities Awards,” which recognize Florida public power utilities for their exemplary power restoration efforts in their own communities or their mutual aid efforts outside of their home communities following hurricanes, other severe weather events and non-weather-related emergencies.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The Restoration Best Practices Guidebook is a collection of tips and practices for utilities and other entities involved in either requesting or responding to mutual aid, or otherwise working on...
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
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.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
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.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
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.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
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.
New England public power utilities have sent crews to help rural cooperative utilities in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine restore power in the wake of a winter storm that recently hit the region.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The Florida Municipal Electric Association recently detailed the progress made in power restoration efforts by public power utility crews in the wake of Hurricane Helene.