“While we have already had AMI metering in place for 17 years, we are now looking forward to the future and implementing outage management options. There are a lot of benefits there that will help our community tremendously. We also brought four level 3 electric vehicle chargers to our city, which we worked on with Seven States and our Atwell & Gent engineering team last year.”

“Technology is moving so rapidly that utilities must be selective in what to implement so that it has true value to the utility and customers. We want to implement an outage management system because communicating with our customers will help keep them better informed. Ultimately, that is the reason we are here—to better the lives of our customers.”

“There are many great opportunities to leverage technology in a utility and it can be overwhelming to sort through. Find out what is most important to your customer and operations and work on that first. Utilizing other LPCs’ experiences and Seven States’ resources means that I do not have to reinvent the wheel, and that has been tremendously helpful for me. Consult with your neighbors—after all, we’re in public power! We’re a community, and that means we’re in a good position to help move everyone forward.”