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The Large Public Power Council (LPPC) is an organization comprised of 25 of the nation's largest locally owned and controlled, not-for-profit power systems. LPPC works to develop and advance consumer-oriented positions on national energy issues.

Since 1987, LPPC members have been working to provide our customers electricity that is reliable, affordable and environmentally responsible. We are actively reducing greenhouse gases and lowering electric bills through conservation, energy efficiency and the use of renewable sources. Some members have received national recognition for exemplary and innovative Green Energy programs.

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 more than 86,000 megawatts of generation capacity and over 35,000 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. We provide electric service to most of the more than 45 million people served by public power.

Like our more than 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 public power rates are approximately 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.

You may also want to visit the Clean and Efficient Energy Program (CEEP) website to learn about the nationwide initiative to assist public power utilities in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of energy efficiency and renewable energy activities.

LPPC is a District of Columbia non-profit corporation qualifying under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code.