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LED streetlight program moving forward

OPPD will begin meeting with streetlight customers in the coming months to update them on progress on LED installations.

No hang ups here. OPPD crews are trained in rope rescues in case they are ever called on to save a fellow employee’s life.

These facilities help supplement the generation units of utilities when demand is at its highest.

OPPD properties coexist with the diverse mix of wildlife that can be found around the utility’s 5,000-square mile territory.

Employees in OPPD’s metering services area mark 10 years without a safety incident, despite the potential dangers of their work.

In response to a typhoid outbreak in Omaha in 1923, the power company turned their power plants into water distilleries.

August is Women Equality Month. Meet Betty Queen, the first woman in Omaha to hold two different grades of engineering licenses.

WHAT IS IT? The highest air temperature that can be reached inside the coal thaw shed at Nebraska City Station. The air gets

John Riggleman’s nearly 30 years with OPPD have taken him all around the district, as well as around the area’s race tracks.

There are a few simple things you can do to help lessen the weather’s impact on your energy usage.