Featuring nine in-depth, interactive, accredited courses for public power professionals in a variety of key operational areas.
Complete the certificate program curriculum in-person at APPA’s office. Learn from real-world examples, receive tools and templates to apply on the job, and network with colleagues from across the country.
Part of the Spring Education Institute. Review rate trends and strategies from utilities across the nation and hear how others are integrating distributed energy resources and restructuring rates.
Part of the Spring Education Institute. This interactive course covers basic and intermediate utility work asset management accounting concepts and applications. Learn about practical industry processes and the day-to-day realities of accounting for utility construction costs.
Learn about the array of indicators to measure your utility’s reliability, from the IEEE standards to best practices relating to disaster preparation, mutual aid, and cyber and physical security.
Part of the Spring Education Institute. Explore the ins and outs of cost of service — from key concepts to the nuts and bolts of working through a cost of service model.
Part of the Spring Education Institute. Learn how to improve your utility’s policies, standards, and practices for planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining underground distribution and hear about current and emerging industry trends.
Part of the Spring Education Institute. This practical course examines the more complicated aspects of accounting theory and practice to inform planning and decision-making and help execute your day-to-day work more efficiently and effectively.
Part three of the three-part Understanding Trends in Energy Technology Series. Examine the dramatic increase in interconnection requests coming from data centers, particularly how the rise in artificial intelligence feeds the need for electricity and what may happen when large language models move
Review the variety of strategies that support a utility’s culture of safety, from the way best practices are baked into your organization to the efforts for continuous improvement.
