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Grid Modernization
Daniella Piper, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at the New York Power Authority (NYPA), recently detailed how NYPA’s utilization of a “digital twin” has benefited the public power utility.
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Rudy Garza recently received a 2026 Keystone Leadership Award from the Keystone Policy Center.
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Grid Modernization
APPA is partnering with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to provide a webinar series for a cohort of APPA members wishing to learn more about ways they can pilot advanced grid technologies and other approaches to grid enhancement.
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Customer Service
Five years ago, Imperial Irrigation District (IID) relied primarily on social media to communicate outage information—without a way to reach customers directly.
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Reliability
APPA joined the Edison Electric Institute, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and Large Public Power Council in submitting comments to the Federal Communications Commission that advance a coordinated electric industry position on enabling scalable unmanned aircraft systems deployment while protecting critical infrastructure and aviation safety.
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Generation
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is directing the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to pause processing agreements for the Data Center Investment Program starting July 1.