IAMU has been awarded a research grant by the American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) program. IAMU will receive $62,425 in DEED funding over 1.5 years. IAMU’s Transformer Toolkit is 1 of 5 projects across American to be funded in this grant cycle. To read APPA’s public funding announcement, click here.
 
IAMU has partnered with 6 municipal utility members to create a comprehensive toolkit to help utilities plan for the electrification of the transportation sector. The toolkit will build upon work done by IAMU’s previous APPA Grant (The EV Toolkit) to help utilities size transformers and forecast required future transformer upgrades. The toolkit will include tools for logging existing transformers and properly sizing residential/commercial/fleet transformers. The toolkit will also include an innovative predictive tool to forecast future required transformer upgrades. There will also be fleet vehicle customer engagement resources in the toolkit.
 
This project will provide important resources for municipal utilities in Iowa and across the country as they adapt to a period of great change in the electric utility industry. IAMU will present the results of the projects through webinars and conference presentations. If you would like to join the project team for this DEED grant and contribute to the transformer toolkit, please email Jeff Gorrie at jgorrie@iamu.org.

On May 2, 2023 American Public Power Association (APPA) honored 166 utilities their Safety Award of Excellence for safe operating practices in 2022.  283 utilities from across the country entered the annual Safety Awards. Entrants were placed in categories according to their number of worker-hours and ranked based on the incident-free records and overall state of their safety programs and culture during 2022. A utility’s incidence rate is based on its number of work-related reportable injuries or illnesses and the number of worker-hours during 2022, as defined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).  Congratulations to the Iowa recipients:
 
Group A (less than 15,000 worker-hours of exposure)
First Place
City of Sioux Center, IA
Second Place
Lenox Municipal Utilities, IA
Third Place
Orange City Municipal Utilities, IA
 
Group B (15,000 to 29,999 worker-hours of exposure)
First Place
Coon Rapids Municipal Utilities, IA
 
Group C (30,000 to 59,999 worker-hours of exposure)
First Place
Waverly Utilities, IA
 
Group F (250,000 to 999,999 worker-hours of exposure)
Third Place
Muscatine Power & Water, IA

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