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APPA President and CEO Joy Ditto reflects on Independence Day celebrations and how our public power utilities share common goals and basic operational similarities but configure their systems to meet...
A proposed climate-related disclosure rule issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will have an adverse effect on the American Public Power Association’s (APPA) members, even though those members, as no-for-profit providers of electric power, are not publicly traded or directly subject to the proposed rule, APPA said in recent comments submitted to the SEC.
General Motors Co. on Jan. 25 announced an investment of more than $7 billion in four Michigan manufacturing sites including construction of a new battery cell plant in the public power community of Lansing, Mich., as well as two Lansing-area vehicle assembly plants to upgrade their production capabilities for near-term products.
Garden City, Kansas, recently purchased transmission and distribution facilities from a rural electric cooperative, marking the final major step that the city has taken as part of revamping the city’s electric system.
February marks Black History Month. The American Public Power Association pays tribute to the Black American leaders who, over a half-century ago, sought to establish the Utilities Board of Tuskegee (UBT).
Nebraska’s Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) recently launched a new tool to help provide support to small businesses in the local community.
The Wisconsin public power communities of New Richmond and Mount Horeb have been selected to participate in the second round of a pilot program under which residents will raise money for local charities while they save money learning new ways to save energy.
Minnesota public power communities have received grants that will help pay for a wide variety of energy-related projects.
Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, recently launched a new demand response program.
Three electric utilities recently came together through a work-sharing arrangement to work on an electric distribution line rebuild for the Village of Callaway, Neb.