Resolutions adopted on grid costs, pole attachments at Legislative Rally

The American Public Power Association’s members on Feb. 26 approved several new policy resolutions that highlight the Association’s concerns about rising transmission costs, its opposition to efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to regulate public power pole attachments and the Association’s push for certain improvements to tax exempt financing.

The resolutions were approved by the Association’s Legislative & Resolutions Committee at its 2019 Legislative Rally in Washington, D.C.

Association officials at the Legislative Rally also outlined the public power trade group’s top priorities for this year, which include infrastructure, grid security and being ready to oppose any effort by the Trump Administration to divest the transmission assets of federal power marketing administrations (PMAs) and the Tennessee Valley Authority…    Read More