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Energy news from Omaha Public Power District

Tag: weather

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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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Customers can help with power reliability during extreme heat

Customers who reduce their power consumption during extreme weather can help promote power reliability for everyone.

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Who’s responsible for cleaning up tree debris after storms?

When storms cause outages, OPPD’s tree trimming crews focus on freeing power lines from tree limbs to help restore power. So whose job is it to clean up tree limbs once that work is done?

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‘Bird dogs’ play key role during major outages

When a bad storm hits, external crew coordinators – or bird dogs – play a little-known but crucial role with mutual aid crews sent to help OPPD restore power.

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Recovering from a natural disaster

Applying for federal reimbursement after a natural disaster is a highly detailed and time consuming process.

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