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Triple Digit Temperatures are Coming, and Public Power is Ready
June 10, 2025
Summer is here, which means our nation’s ongoing electricity load growth challenges must accommodate an additional variable: extreme heat. According to NERC’s 2025 Summer Reliability Assessment, aggregated peak demand...
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LPPC Calls for FEMA Reform While Emphasizing Need for Continued Federal Grants
May 21, 2025
When disasters strike, whether it be hurricanes, wildfires, floods, or winter storms, public power utilities are on the front lines, working around the clock to restore electric service and protect public safety...
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Industry Groups Back FEMA as ‘Essential’ Disaster Agency
May 19, 2025
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, facing potential upheaval under President Donald Trump, has received a wave of support from powerful groups such as the wireless industry, electric utilities, power companies and real estate agents...
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LPPC Member CEOs Head to Capitol Hill
May 13, 2025
Last week, CEOs from the Large Public Power Council’s member utilities (LPPC) gathered in Washington, D.C., to meet with lawmakers, regulators, and agency officials on energy policies that directly impact more than 30 million Americans served by public power utilities...
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The Hidden Costs of Eliminating Energy Tax Credits
April 28, 2025
Though they may not realize it, the 30 million customers of our country’s largest public power utilities could face significantly higher electric bills if federal energy tax policies change. Demand for energy is surging. According to an analysis from Brattle Group, the U.S. will need 50% more energy by 2035...
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Public Utilities Would Feel Pain if Muni Tax Exemption Goes
March 31, 2025
Higher borrowing costs would force publicly-owned utility providers to raise rates or delay critical infrastructure, advocates say, and may even spur privatization. Doing away with the tax exemption, as congressional Republicans have suggested, would force local governments to choose...
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LPPC Welcomes EPA’s Decision To Reconsider The Power Plant CO2 Rule
March 13, 2025
The Large Public Power Council (LPPC), which represents 29 of the largest not-for-profit public power utilities in the U.S., welcomes the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to reconsider the Power Plant CO2 Rule...
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LPPC Op-ed: Growing Demand for Electricity Requires New Policy Solutions
March 11, 2025
America wants more. More manufacturing, more innovation, more opportunities for economic growth. Technologies like AI and advanced semiconductors are meeting the moment, providing enterprises and individuals with computing power, jobs and investment opportunities...
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Forbes Covers LPPC at USEA Press Briefing
March 6, 2025
Donald Trump is sounding more aggressive than ever, promising to take a closer look at the “endangerment finding,” which is the scientific and legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases that are causing climate change...
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Bill restoring tax-exempt advance refunding introduced in House
February 13, 2025
Cities, states, and other municipal bond issuers would regain the ability to advance refund tax-exempt debt under standalone legislation introduced Thursday by a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Reps. David Kustoff, R-Tenn., Rudy Yakym...
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