| 5/10/2022 | Upgrade reveals value of mobile transformers | In September 2021, Rocky Mountain employees placed a mobile transformer into service at Kimball Substation in Kimball County, Nebraska. |
| 5/6/2022 | Reinvigorating WAPA’s I&D Program | WAPA has been pursuing a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture for many years. |
| 4/28/2022 | Get to know WAPA’s CIO | In 2019, Michael Montoya was selected as senior vice president and chief information officer. |
| 4/26/2022 | Business intelligence: Share insights, show results | WAPA has massive repositories of data about its assets and operations. |
| 4/12/2022 | Aviation manager recognized with safety award | The Department of Energy’s Office of Aviation Management hosts an annual aviation safety award program, intended to promote safe operations and to recognize the top performers in each program. |
| 4/6/2022 | UGP employee receives MRO HERO Award | In December, Compliance Manager Mark Buchholz received the Midwest Reliability Organization’s Highly Effective Reliability Organizations Award. |
| 4/4/2022 | First AEM of year spotlights change | WAPA’s first All-Employee Meeting of 2022 was held Feb. 3. |
| 3/31/2022 | What to understand during WAPA’s re-entry | It’s an arduous process, moving a heavily remote workforce back into the building, and it is a move that will affect all employees, regardless of telework status. |
| 3/24/2022 | Lightning strike in DSW leads to fast collaboration | On July 30, 2021, a lightning storm caused damage to Gila Substation in Yuma, Arizona, spurring not only immediate collaboration for a solution, but also a lengthy process of replacement and repair that lasted through early this year. |
| 3/17/2022 | Reflecting on the benefits of mentoring | In January, Leadership Development launched the WAPA-wide Mentoring Program, welcoming 62 participants in its first cohort. |
| 3/9/2022 | Summarizing 2021 hydrology conditions | One of the biggest challenges for hydropower is water variability due to intermittent drought and flooding. By |
| 3/7/2022 | Forest Service partnership prevents outages | For the past several years, the U.S. has endured a series of devastating wildfires. |
| 3/2/2022 | New tool saves time, improves inspections | Last month WAPA launched a new tool that, according to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Kevin Howard, will “enable us to more effectively monitor the health of our transmission system and efficiently react to condition issues". |
| 2/16/2022 | Strategically building our safety culture | Safety is one of WAPA’s Strategic Enablers, as identified in our Tactical Action Plan |
| 2/14/2022 | WAPA at its best is... | I have been in the workforce for more than 50 years. I have had a lot of jobs and a lot of employers, but I’ve never worked for an organization quite like WAPA. |
| 2/9/2022 | Reflecting on LDP’s supercharged year | The Leadership Development Program aims to cultivate learning and leadership by developing authentic leaders who embody WAPA’s core values and leadership competencies. |
| 2/7/2022 | CSO shares journey to WAPA | On Nov. 21, 2021, Kerry Whitford officially joined WAPA as the organization’s chief strategy officer. |
| 1/31/2022 | GridEx tests WAPA’s emergency readiness | “Exercise. Exercise. Exercise. Increased activity on social media by several extremist groups calls for protest, vandalism and attacks on equipment and personnel. Their goal is disruption of the power grid in the WAPA area.” |
| 1/23/2022 | Top 10 stories of 2021 | This was another year full of unexpected challenges and developments, meaning that looking backward to choose only 10 stories to spotlight was extremely difficult. |
| 1/18/2022 | ELDP graduates first cohort | On Oct. 29, the Emerging Leaders Development Program graduated its first cohort of 30 individuals. |
| 1/12/2022 | Insulator storage improvement avoids costs | A forklift hums down an aisle of the large, open warehouse in Loveland, Colorado, where staff transports the latest supply shipment to its proper storage area. |
| 1/10/2022 | Removing raptor nests for reliable transmission | With big eyes and sharp talons, one might think that ospreys don’t need much protection from anything. |
| 1/5/2022 | Electrical engineer receives Leadership Award | In October, Supervisory Electrical Engineer John Quintana received the Industry Leadership Award from RMEL – formerly the Rocky Mountain Electrical League – in Denver, Colorado. |
| 1/3/2022 | Recovery success: Chub no longer endangered | On Oct. 18, the Fish and Wildlife Service published the final rule to reclassify the humpback chub from endangered to threatened in the Federal Register. |
