Forty-nine public power electric utilities and utility organizations earned Excellence in Public Power Communications Awards from the American Public Power Association. The awards were presented this week at APPA’s Customer Connections Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The annual awards recognize excellence in communications. The entries are judged in three categories: print/digital, web/social media, and video. Awards were given to those that showed ingenuity and creativity in telling their stories through outstanding copy, design, financial data presentation, graphics, social media engagement, video editing, and web layout and interactivity.
This year’s awards were judged by Barbara Armentrout, Managing Partner at the Mesa Group; Eric Cornish, Associate Professor of Digital Design at Miami Dade College; and Benjamin Rome, Senior Manager, Communications at the American Industrial Hygiene Association.
The winners are:
Class A: Gross revenues of $400 million or more
Print/Digital
- Award of Excellence – Huntsville Utilities
- Award of Excellence – Indiana Municipal Power Agency
- Award of Merit – Anaheim Public Utilities
Video
- Award of Excellence – Austin Energy
- Award of Excellence – Chelan County PUD
- Award of Excellence – Energy Northwest
- Award of Excellence – Orlando Utilities Commission
- Award of Excellence – Santee Cooper
- Award of Merit – Nashville Electric Service
- Award of Merit – SMUD
Web/Social Media
- Award of Excellence – Anaheim Public Utilities
- Award of Excellence – CPS Energy
- Award of Excellence – Nashville Electric Service
- Award of Excellence – Orlando Utilities Commission
- Award of Excellence – Riverside Public Utilities
- Award of Merit – Chelan County PUD
- Award of Merit – Clark Public Utilities
- Award of Merit – Florida Municipal Power Agency
- Award of Merit – Huntsville Utilities
- Award of Merit – Omaha Public Power District
- Award of Merit – Turlock Irrigation District
Class B: Gross revenues of $200 million-$399,999,999
Print/Digital
- Award of Excellence – Burbank Water and Power
- Award of Excellence – Lincoln Electric System
- Award of Excellence – Pasadena Water and Power
- Award of Merit – Guam Power Authority
- Award of Merit – Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company
- Award of Merit – City of Tallahassee
Video
- Award of Excellence – Burbank Water and Power
- Award of Excellence – Grant PUD
- Award of Excellence – Guam Power Authority
- Award of Excellence – Pasadena Water and Power
- Award of Merit – Alabama Municipal Electric Authority
Web/Social Media
- Award of Excellence – Alabama Municipal Electrical Authority
- Award of Excellence – Bryan Texas Utilities
Class C: Gross revenues of $75 million-$199,999,999
Print/Digital
- Award of Excellence – Kissimmee Utility Authority
- Award of Merit – Kentucky Municipal Energy Agency
- Award of Merit – New Braunfels Utilities
- Award of Merit – Tennessee Municipal Electric Power Association
Video
- Award of Excellence – Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation
- Award of Excellence – Greenville Utilities Commission
- Award of Excellence – Muscatine Power and Water
- Award of Merit – CDE Lightband
Web/Social Media
- Award of Excellence – City of Concord
- Award of Excellence – Edmond Electric
- Award of Excellence – Greenville Utilities Commission
- Award of Excellence – Mason PUD 3
- Award of Excellence – Navajo Tribal Utility Authority
- Award of Excellence – San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
- Award of Excellence – Westfield Gas and Electric
- Award of Merit – Beaches Energy
- Award of Merit – CDE Lightband
- Award of Merit – Muscatine Power and Water
- Award of Merit – New Braunfels Utilities
Class D: Gross revenues of less than $75 million
Print/Digital
- Award of Excellence – Conway Corporation
- Award of Merit – Kaukauna Utilities
- Award of Merit – Kerrville Public Utility Board
- Award of Merit – Shrewsbury Electric & Cable Operations
- Award of Merit – Tennessee Valley Public Power Association
Video
- Award of Excellence – Coldwater Board of Public Utilities
- Award of Excellence – Northeast Public Power Association
- Award of Excellence – Tennessee Valley Public Power Association
- Award of Merit – Conway Corp
- Award of Merit – GEUS
Web/Social Media
- Award of Excellence – Coldwater Board of Public Utilities
- Award of Merit – Azusa Light and Water