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Meet OPPD’s Central Maintenance crews: Have wrench will travel

About 50 OPPD employees have traveled the district for 40 years working on equipment ensuring reliability for customers.

Development and growth are driving the need for wider roads in parts of the metro, which involves relocating OPPD equipment.

The 22 students completed a curriculum that includes classroom learning, real-world experience and workplace social skills.

Utilities take a number of factors – and a wide range of date – into account when they set electricity rates for customers.

What’s it take to become an OPPD line technician? Ten new hires are in the process of learning what the job entails.

Group aims to build relationships between local developers, utilities.

The five-year replacement plan will benefit OPPD’s streetlight contract customers and mean fewer outages for residents.

Affordable rates and service they can count on. Those were important factors in one company’s decision to call Omaha home.

Protecting employees in the field is focus of new legislation.

Large projects with big impacts were hallmarks of OPPD’s luring new businesses to the area in 2017, a banner year for team.