The Large Public Power Council (LPPC) is an organization comprised of 23 of the nation's largest locally owned and controlled power systems. LPPC works to develop and advance consumer-oriented positions on national energy issues.

From New York to California and from Washington state to Florida, LPPC members provide reliable, low-cost electric service to most of the more than 45 million people served by public power. This includes tens of thousands of large and small businesses in some of the fastest-growing urban and rural residential and commercial markets in America.

LPPC member utilities own and operate over 75,000 megawatts of generation capacity and nearly 34,000 circuit miles of high voltage transmission lines. Together, LPPC members control 90% of the public agency owned, but non-federal, transmission investment in the nation.

Like our nearly 2,000 smaller public power counterparts located in every state but Hawaii, LPPC's members are not-for-profit entities committed only to the people and communities they serve. In fact, average residential public power rates are 14 percent lower than those charged by for-profit, investor-owned utilities -- according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Energy.

To serve our customers as well as possible, the LPPC has been working hard to educate legislative decision makers throughout the country. Copies of press releases and position papers that we have developed for this purpose can be found elsewhere on this site.

 

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