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The American Public Power Association’s Reliable Public Power Provider program recognizes utilities that demonstrate high proficiency in reliability, safety, workforce development, and system improvement. Below is a list of public power utilities that currently hold the RP3 designation. Utilities
The American Public Power Association’s safety awards recognize utilities' incident rates and the overall state of their safety programs and culture. Groups are determined by worker-hours of exposure. Two hundred two utilities have earned the American Public Power Association’s (APPA) Safety Award
eReliability Tracker The eReliability Tracker is an affordable, easy-to-use mobile-friendly web-based service that provides public power utilities with an effective way to collect, categorize, and summarize outage information. Although the application is part of an effort to provide an economical
About the RP3 Review Panel The RP 3 Review Panel has 18 members appointed by the chair of APPA's Board of Directors. Two Panel seats represent either a joint action agency or state association. Six Panel seats are for two representatives each from small, medium, and large public power utilities. The
Public power utilities have a long-standing commitment to both workplace and public safety, with the goal of zero injuries in their communities. Safety Awards of Excellence Applications for the 2024 Safety Awards of Excellence closed on January 31, 2025. Please come back to this page at in November
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Community-owned utilities power one in seven electricity customers. Through the American Public Power Association’s advertising and sponsorship opportunities, your business can reach 61 percent of the nation’s electricity providers in the $250 billion electric utility market. APPA connects you to
Contribute to the PAC Support the American Public Power Association’s political action committee. Through this voluntary, non-partisan PAC, public power professionals pool their resources to contribute to the campaigns of Members of Congress who support public power. The Federal Election Commission
Public power utilities are one of three primary types of electric utilities that serve customers in the United States. Public power utilities are not-for-profit, community-owned, and locally governed. Our Signature Reports Our reports offer more insight into public power and its role in the
The American Public Power Association conducts surveys to gather information about public power utilities to identify trends in the industry, understand emerging issues, and help our members benchmark various aspects of their operations. The data we collect in our surveys helps create a variety of