Western Area Power Administration
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Sep 26, 2026
Chip CominsGUEST
There's the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Chip CominsGUEST
There's the Western Area Power Administration.
Chip CominsGUEST
There's Bonneville up in the Northwest, which is mostly hydro.
Chip CominsGUEST
And there's other smaller, but those are the three big ones where we're talking about federal components of the Eastern, Western, and Texas grid system that we have.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Four-year lineman apprenticeship, then journeyman work, then human external cargo training, which is the certification for being moved by helicopter.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
WAPA Western Area Power Administration requires a 64-hour HEC course, then two weeks of annual retraining, hoisting at 25, 50, and 100 feet, practicing landings on a mock tower before touching real structures.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Uh, that's you.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
You're the cargo.
Elston GrubaughGUEST
So, for instance, the Parker Davis project has a funding board made up of the customers who pay for the project.
Elston GrubaughGUEST
And we work with the Western Area Power Administration and the Bureau of Reclamation on maintaining those dams, those generating facilities, and those transmission facilities.
Elston GrubaughGUEST
It's our dollars.
Elston GrubaughGUEST
They are operating them.
Elston GrubaughGUEST
But we've been able to manage it so far.
Elston GrubaughGUEST
We keep an eye on things.
Elston GrubaughGUEST
We work with the Western Area Power Administration.
Elston GrubaughGUEST
We are a distribution utility.
speaker_1HOST
The city announced the transmission portion of the utilities wholesale power bill rose 189%.
speaker_1HOST
From June to June of last year to this year, Western Area Power Administration is the region's provider, and they recently switched to Southwest Power Pool, something like that.
speaker_1HOST
I don't know any of these electric companies over there.
speaker_1HOST
I mean, this is basically western Nebraska, Torrington.
speaker_1CORRESPONDENT
Local agencies reported to the grass fire about 10.30 p.m. September 4th.
speaker_1CORRESPONDENT
The Corps, along with the Western Area Power Administration, are investigating the situation and have not found a cause at this time.
speaker_1CORRESPONDENT
Three hydroelectric generators were affected by the incident.
speaker_1CORRESPONDENT
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is updating its farm loan policies and technology to improve credit access for farmers and ranchers.