We Are The Large Public Power Council

Public power has embraced the clean energy transition. Our members are setting nation-leading goals to decarbonize their generation portfolios and adopting new and innovative technologies, fuels, and investments in beneficial electrification and grid modernization.

LPPC advocates for federal actions and policies that advance the clean energy transition in a manner that maintains electric reliability and affordability and recognizes regional differences between utilities.

Specifically, we’re advocating for Congress to restore tax-exempt advance refundings, repeal mandatory sequestration on taxable bonds, and advance the direct pay tax credit so our members can unleash their full potential as we continue to transition to a clean energy future. The inability to utilize renewable and clean energy tax credits puts public power companies—and our 50 million customers—at a distinct disadvantage. Currently, our consumers pay more for the same clean energy outcomes as customers in other markets. Giving public power direct access to these tax credits enables the tax incentives to flow to our not-for-profit members and the communities they serve, rather than private developers.

The electrification of transportation is essential to decarbonizing America’s economy. The infrastructure for charging electric vehicles is a natural extension of the distribution grid, and LPPC members are quickly expanding electric mobility options, both as fuel providers and infrastructure developers.

As leaders within the regions where they operate, our members work with local, state, and federal governments; community stakeholders; and other industries to ensure electric mobility is holistically integrated into their cities and all citizens are served throughout this transition.

In fact, our members are leading the way in some of the most EV-friendly cities in the country, such as Austin, Orlando, and Sacramento.

LPPC member utilities are committed to maintaining and protecting the electric grid, ensuring that one in seven Americans who uses public power can reliably power their homes, businesses, and communities. Public power customers experience less than half the outage time when compared to other electric utility customers, barring significant events.

Nevertheless, LPPC members continuously invest in modernizing and hardening the grid, enabling it to adapt to changing conditions and withstand and rapidly recover from system disruptions. Extreme weather and cyber threats have prompted our members to prioritize and ensure sufficient capacity to power Americans through these increasingly frequent disruptions.

As we transition to the grid of the future, LPPC is advocating for policies that build upon the existing regulatory framework to enhance the resilience of the nation’s electric grid.

Over the last decade, LPPC member utilities have invested more than $100 billion in power distribution, transmission, and generation infrastructure to support reliability, affordability, environmental stewardship, and economic development in the regions and communities they serve.

During the next ten years, LPPC members have plans to invest significantly to increase reliability, improve resilience, modernize generation, develop clean energy, and update the grid to accommodate new technologies and electrification of the transportation and building sectors.

But our members could invest even more if Congress would restore tax-exempt advance refundings, repeal mandatory sequestration on taxable bonds, and advance the direct pay tax credit so our members can access more capital and, in turn, provide better value to those they serve.