Twenty-Nine of the Largest Public Power Utilities

The Large Public Power Council speaks for twenty-nine of the largest public power systems in the nation. With familiar names like New York Power Authority, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and Salt River Project, they serve 30.5 million American consumers across twenty-two states and Puerto Rico.

LPPC advocates on behalf of its members in Washington, D.C. for policies that allow the non-profit public power systems to flourish by investing in their communities and providing affordable and reliable electric power. These nonprofit utilities also control ninety percent of the public agency-owned, non-federal, transmission investment in the nation.

It all means that public power systems represented by LPPC are contending with major issues. Like most investor-owned utilities, public power systems are being tested by tremendous load growth and more. Public Utilities Fortnightly went to LPPC CEO Tom Falcone to find out how public power is meeting the many challenges.

PUF’s Steve Mitnick: Talk about the Large Public Power Council. Give a sense of how broad the LPPC membership is.

Tom Falcone: Starting with public power in general, there are two thousand public power utilities across the country, but many are smaller distribution utilities. Twenty-nine of those utilities are LPPC members, and they make up about ninety percent of the assets.