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Former NARUC President Paul Kjellander, also former Idaho PUC President, is Senior Advisor at Public Utilities Fortnightly.
As PUF’s Steve Mitnick and Rachel Moore wrote in their 2023 book, “Heroes of the Storms, How Electricity’s Value is Built and Maintained:”
“It all starts with a path of destruction. After a while, once the winds die down, the devastation is apparent. Now anybody can see that the power isn’t coming back anytime soon. It is then when we recalculate things. How are we actually going to get through this, however long this is?
That’s when our heroes of the storms show up, from around here, and from around the state. From several states over, they come. With their gear and trucks, they come. They form up, much like an army. They come here, from their hometowns to ours, to reassemble what’s been so thoroughly dissembled by the weather’s tantrum. They come, so we can plug back into our lives.
The electric utility industry is a great one for several reasons. But one of the best reasons is this – the dedication, the courage, the sheer persistence of the heroes of storm recovery.”
Since National Lineman Appreciation Day is this month, on the eighteenth of April, PUF’s Paul Kjellander completed these two new paintings for this issue of the magazine to show PUF’s sincere appreciation for the industry’s heroes.
Lineman Appreciation Day
