OPPD team facing damage, terrain like ‘something we’ve never seen’
A 16-member team is working in West Virginia as part of massive power restoration efforts following Hurricane Helene.
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Energy news from Omaha Public Power District
Energy news from Omaha Public Power District
Tag: mutual aid
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On the front lines of a historic outage
OPPD employees and their mutual aid counterparts discuss working to restore power after a devastating storm caused the largest power outage in the utility's history.
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OPPD mutual aid team heads home
An OPPD mutual aid team helped restore power to MidAmerican and ComEd customers in Illinois who lost power when damaging storms moved through the region July 15.
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A look back at The Wire’s top 10 stories of 2023
Last year's top 10 stories included OPPD’s $2 billion plan for substantial generation growth, giving a shuttered Douglas County landfill new life as the home of a solar facility, and restoring power in sweltering northern Florida after Hurricane Idalia.
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‘I’ve never seen anything like it’
Members of the OPPD mutual aid team that helped restore power in heavily damaged northern Florida describe the challenges and rewards of their work.
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Mutual aid team returns from Florida
The OPPD team worked for nine days in northern Florida, which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Idalia.
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