Western Area Power Administration
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WAPA, in collaboration with Barnard Construction Company, announces construction supporting an upgrade to the local power infrastructure through the Estes-Flatiron Transmission Line Rebuild Project.
Administrator and CEO Tracey A. LeBeau testified May 23 before the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee’s Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee on the Western Area Power Administration’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget request.
Western Area Power Administration’s 2022 Annual Report is now available. The report’s title and theme: Reflect. Recharge. Resolve. represents the many ways the organization reconnected with customers, generating agencies and other stakeholders, during the 2022 fiscal year, to forge a deliberate path forward in a dynamic environment.
Western Area Power Administration recently unveiled its new strategic plan, Power Forward 2030. The plan establishes three overarching strategic goals that define the organization’s trajectory for the next seven years: to safeguard a sustainable energy future, modernize the grid and invest in our employees.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 31, 2023 CONTACT: Teresa Waugh, mediarelations@wapa.gov, 303-328-8225 LAKEWOOD, Colo. – On Jan. 31, Western Area Power Administration met its commitment to customers and stakeholders to update The Source with financial and operational information for the past fiscal year, which included returning $300.6 million to the U.S. Treasury. WAPA has returned a total of $4.5 […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 28, 2022 CONTACT: Lisa Meiman, mediarelations@wapa.gov, 720.962.7411 Note: Lisa Meiman was a public affairs specialist. LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Ron Klinefelter has been selected as Western Area Power Administration’s senior vice president and General Council. Klinefelter has been acting in this position since Jan. 3; his official start date is Oct. 9. “I started […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 21, 2022 CONTACT: WAPA: Lisa Meiman, mediarelations@wapa.gov, 720.962.7411 Basin Electric: Tracie Bettenhausen, TBettenhausen@bepc.com, 701.557.5789 Colorado Springs Utilities: Steve Berry, sberry@csu.org, 719.668.3848 Tri-State: Lee Boughey, lboughey@tristategt.org, 720.670.6696 LAKEWOOD, Colo.—Expanding the Southwest Power Pool Regional Transmission Organization into the Western Interconnection could produce a net total of $55 million to $73 million per […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 19, 2022 CONTACT: Lisa Meiman, mediarelations@wapa.gov, 720.962.7411 LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Western Area Power Administration is looking for partners to improve energy delivery in the West and address congestion issues at WAPA’s Mead Substation in southern Nevada. Statements of interest may be submitted by project developers, electric utilities, federal power customers or others […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 15, 2022 CONTACT: Lisa Meiman, mediarelations@wapa.gov, 720.962.7411 LAKEWOOD, Colo. – Tina Ko has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer at Western Area Power Administration. She has been acting in the position since March and will assume the permanent role in early November upon final approval by the Department of Energy Office […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aug. 18, 2022 CONTACT: Lisa Meiman, mediarelations@wapa.gov, 720.962.7411 LAKEWOOD, Colorado – Eleven municipalities in Kansas and Nebraska and one military installation in Colorado have been approved to receive at-cost federal hydropower from Western Area Power Administration’s Loveland Area Projects starting Oct. 1, 2024. It is the largest addition of WAPA customers since the remarketing of […]
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