Alameda Municipal Power

Pollution drops in Alameda

Michele Ellson
Monday, March 11, 2013 - 12:05am

Alamedans polluted less in 2010 than they did five years earlier, the results of a new study show.

Emissions of carbon dioxide and other air pollutants dropped 8 percent over that time, the 2010 Community-Wide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory estimates, putting Alameda on track to meet the city’s reduction target of 25 percent by 2020. But some are questioning whether the numbers will hold as the nation emerges from a recession that likely reduced the car trips that are responsible for much of the pollution, and they say that much more needs to be done. Read more >> about Pollution drops in Alameda

Alameda Municipal Power may move business to bigger bank

Michele Ellson
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 12:05am

After more than a decade of banking locally, Alameda Municipal Power appears prepared to move to a bigger bank. Read more >> about Alameda Municipal Power may move business to bigger bank

Power company upgrades to be discussed tonight

Michele Ellson
Monday, September 17, 2012 - 12:05am

Managers of Alameda’s city-owned electric company need to replace the utility’s outmoded technology and figure out how they’ll attract new employees in the face of a shortage of qualified workers, according to a new consultant’s report to be discussed by the City Council and Public Utilities Board tonight. Read more >> about Power company upgrades to be discussed tonight

Power managers seek new rates, meters for electric cars

Michele Ellson
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 12:05am
Electric vehicle map

Alameda Municipal Power’s managers want to set new rates for charging electric cars as the vehicles’ availability and popularity grows. They want to have a new rate structure to Alameda’s Public Utilities Board for a decision in November that will help the utility make more money while producing savings for customers. Read more >> about Power managers seek new rates, meters for electric cars

Alameda Municipal Power celebrates 125th birthday

Michele Ellson
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 12:05am
Photo courtesy of Alameda Municipal Power

In 1887, the City of Alameda took ownership of one of the nation’s first municipal power plants. And even then, the utility generated controversy. The city’s price tag for purchasing the 90-kilowatt plant from Jenney Electric Company, which was building plants all over the country and had constructed this one at the corner of Park Street and Otis Drive, was $40,000 – twice its contracted construction cost. Read more >> about Alameda Municipal Power celebrates 125th birthday

Undergrounding program shelved for overhaul

Michele Ellson
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 12:05am
Alameda Municipal Power

Alameda’s Public Utilities Board has agreed to shelve a controversial program to move utility wires underground in order to facilitate an overhaul of the program. The decision followed a 10-month review sparked by concerns over plans for a new underground utility district along and around Webster Street.

“This is not about utility district 31 per se. This about stepping back and looking at the undergrounding program as a whole,” Alameda Municipal Power General Manager Girish Balachandran said at a Public Utilities Board meeting Monday. Read more >> about Undergrounding program shelved for overhaul

Utility's leaders discuss a budget - and the future

Michele Ellson
Friday, April 13, 2012 - 12:05am

Managers at Alameda Municipal Power are set to engage in a massive planning effort to prepare the 125-year-old utility and its workforce for changes in the technology it will use to deliver electricity to homes and businesses.

Those issues will be wrapped into a Public Utilities Board workshop on the utility’s budget to be held at 4 p.m. Monday in the Regina K. Stafford room at the Alameda Free Library, 1550 Oak Street. The board will also hold its regular meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at City Hall, where it will consider the third of five annual rate increases. Read more >> about Utility's leaders discuss a budget - and the future

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