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Understand Your Leadership at Work
Learn More: Understand Your Leadership at WorkHometown Connections workshop teaches employees to apply their individual strengths, passions, and work styles to benefit the organization, by Patty Cruz Leadership training can sound like a nebulous concept. To have a lasting and fruitful impact, it should involve much more than how to motivate and supervise the work of others. Today’s best leadership training…
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MPUA Offers Cybersecurity Monitoring Services to Members
Learn More: MPUA Offers Cybersecurity Monitoring Services to MembersThis article presents excerpts from a brochure describing MPUA’s cybersecurity program for members. Download the full brochure here. MPUA is a not-for-profit service organization representing municipally-owned utilities in Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansas. The utility industry has become increasingly aware of cybersecurity threats. In response, MPUA/MJMEUC launched a Cybersecurity Initiative to offer monitoring services that protect our…
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Carey Kicks Off AMI Project
Learn More: Carey Kicks Off AMI ProjectThe Village of Carey Ohio’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project kicked off on Jan. 15, with American Municipal Power Inc. (AMP) and Hometown Connections Inc. (HCI) personnel visiting the village offices to cover the scope and timeline of the project. As reported by AMP’s Jared Price, Vice President of IT and Chief Technology Officer, the…
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Apply for RP3 Status — It’s Easier than You Think
Learn More: Apply for RP3 Status — It’s Easier than You ThinkFrom May 1 through September 30, 2019, public power utilities may apply online for designation by the American Public Power Association’s Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3) program. As a career public power professional involved in the program since its founding in 2005, I can attest to the value of the RP3 designation and reassure potential applicants about…
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Al Weber Brings Public Power Smart Grid Sales Expertise to Staff of Hometown Connections
Learn More: Al Weber Brings Public Power Smart Grid Sales Expertise to Staff of Hometown ConnectionsA highly recognized smart grid sales executive with demonstrated leadership success in the utilities market, Al Weber has joined the staff of Hometown Connections as Vice President, Business Development. He has a long and acclaimed track record of managing complex system and software partnerships, product development, market development, account closings, contract negotiations, and project delivery.
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Twenty Years and Counting
Learn More: Twenty Years and CountingHometown Connections Prepares for Next Phase of Service to Public Power, By Tim Blodgett, President & CEO, Hometown Connections, Inc. Celebrating 20 years of service to public power, Hometown Connections has in place a new ownership structure providing the resources to expand into managed technology solutions and other new services. Hometown Connections is poised to help…
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Joint Action Agencies Invest in Hometown Connections to Serve Public Power Utilities Nationwide
Learn More: Joint Action Agencies Invest in Hometown Connections to Serve Public Power Utilities NationwideLAKEWOOD, CO—June 1, 2018 – To bring greater value to public power utilities across the United States, the Alabama Municipal Electric Authority, American Municipal Power, Inc., Missouri Public Utility Alliance, Northern California Power Agency, and the Vermont Public Power Supply Authority today invested in Hometown Connections, Inc. This investment included purchasing the majority of Hometown Connections International assets from the American Public…
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Navigate the Challenges Ahead with Strategic Planning Support from Hometown Connections
Learn More: Navigate the Challenges Ahead with Strategic Planning Support from Hometown ConnectionsTechnology costs, workforce shortages, new regulations, power supply changes, budget pressures, cyber threats…The path forward is easier when you bring in Hometown Connection for Strategic Planning Support. We understand your struggle to balance the demands of daily operations with the need to set long-term goals and priorities. You are likely facing:
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Reduce AMI Deployment Costs, Complexity, Ongoing Financial Risk
Learn More: Reduce AMI Deployment Costs, Complexity, Ongoing Financial RiskSelect Managed Service Strategy by Hometown Connections. Advanced metering offers critical improvements to utility operations and customer service. Yet due to costs and complexity, deploying AMI remains out of reach for too many public power systems. If you fear AMI is not an option, Hometown Connections has the answer. The Hometown Connections approach to AMI for public…
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Navajo Tribal Utility Authority Focuses on Customer Service As Strategic Pillar
Learn More: Navajo Tribal Utility Authority Focuses on Customer Service As Strategic PillarFor Walter W. “Wally “Haase, becoming the general manager ten years ago of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority meant tackling issues little known to him and to the rest of public power. With a vast and imposing physical landscape inhabited largely by impoverished citizens, the Navajo Nation needed greatly expanded and more reliable utility services.…
