Manager’s Message

Posted: February 9, 2024 at 2:21 p.m.

Ice Storm Reflections

It goes without saying the past month has been one of the most challenging in the history of our utility. From all of us at EPUD, we can't thank customers enough for your continued support during the historic ice storm event.

Posted: December 22, 2023 at 1:36 p.m.

The Year Ahead

Happy Holidays from all of us here at Seavey Loop! It’s been an exciting finish to the year, as we celebrated our 40th Anniversary and pushed forward on capital improvement projects across the District. As we turn the page on 2023, we’re excited about what’s to come in the year ahead.

Posted: October 2, 2023 at 3:20 p.m.

2024 Budget Process

As a public power utility, we take pride in having a transparent budget process. This year is no exception, and we recently released our 2024 budget proposal for public review.

Posted: August 24, 2023 at 8:45 a.m.

Doubling Down on Short Mountain

Last week our Board of Directors passed Resolution 2023-19, Adopting a New Strategic Direction for the Short Mountain Power Plant. This action represents an exciting step forward in expanding this source of local, renewable power generation.

Posted: June 14, 2023 at 4:03 p.m.

Strategic Plan Check In

As we reach the year's mid-point, we also find ourselves halfway through our current Strategic Plan time horizon. Time for a check in on how its going!

Posted: April 26, 2023 at 12:40 p.m.

State of the Utility

At long last the litigation with SUB is over. To celebrate, let's examine how Emerald is doing across a number of areas. Spoiler: we're looking good!

Posted: February 25, 2023 at 10:13 a.m.

Help Us Stop Springfield Utility Board’s Wasteful Lawsuit

For more than 20 years, the City of Springfield’s Utility Board (SUB) has been attempting to illegally seize our service territory. We’re asking them to stop. Find out how you can help.

Posted: January 24, 2023 at 5:41 p.m.

A Victory For Emerald’s Customers

Emerald has prevailed once again in a long-running court battle with the Springfield Utility Board (SUB). After two decades and hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted, it's time for them to stop this pointless fight.

Posted: November 28, 2022 at 11:10 a.m.

Outages and Reliability – Winter 2022-2023

The cold weather started early this season and it's a good reminder that storms could be headed our way soon. We've made great progress upgrading our system and it can handle a lot more damage than ever before. That said, the reality of living in Oregon (with all of our beautiful trees) is that outages can and do happen.

Posted: October 12, 2022 at 6:48 p.m.

2023 Budget Process

Another year with no rate increase! The 2023 budget proposal demonstrates our commitment to keeping your rates stable while making smart investments back into our system. The result should be continued improvements in both reliability and affordability for all customers.

Posted: September 6, 2022 at 7:30 a.m.

Public Power Week

Next month is Public Power Week, an annual celebration of the benefits of customer-owned utilities. If you’re anything like I used to be, you may not even realize just how special this public power concept is.

Posted: July 1, 2022 at 11:52 a.m.

Wildfire Mitigation

The heavy spring rain has produced unusually large amounts of vegetation out there, as the weeds in your garden may be reminding you. During the summer months, this growth will dry out and increase the risk of wildfire danger.

Posted: June 3, 2022 at 2:12 p.m.

Community Meetings

Hello EPUD Customer Owners! I'd like to invite all of you to join us at one of our upcoming community meetings this month. We've scheduled six meetings across the District to share information with customers and hear directly from you about our services.

Posted: April 15, 2022 at 2:28 p.m.

Supply Chain Challenges

Hello again to our wonderful customer-owners. I wanted to take a few minutes to describe a topic that’s been taking up a majority of my time the past few months. I’m sure you’ve seen the news headlines about the current global supply chain issues and their impact on product availability and prices. Here at the utility, we’re not immune to these challenges...

Posted: March 3, 2022 at 11:03 a.m.

Short Mountain Explained

Any visitor to Lane County driving up I-5 north will notice the landfill out your right window. But did you know this site is also an important part of Emerald’s power supply?

Posted: February 3, 2022 at 4:09 p.m.

Our Power is Water

Happy February to all of our great customer-owners. To start the month off, I thought I’d say a few words about Emerald’s #1 resource for power generation: water.

Posted: January 16, 2022 at 9:57 p.m.

Board Meeting Access

As a consumer-owned utility and public agency, we strive to make EPUD open and accessible to customers. This has become more difficult in the midst of a global pandemic that’s required us to close our building to the public.

Posted: January 3, 2022 at 8:14 p.m.

December Snow

Well, it must be the winter season because no sooner did I write up the summary below than we saw another storm event pass through. This time, a sustained wind hit the area Sunday night and into Monday, again resulting in downed tree limbs in our more heavily wooded areas.

Posted: January 1, 2022 at 7:46 p.m.

Introduction

I hope this message finds you well in the New Year! For those of you I don’t already know, my name is Kyle Roadman and I officially began serving as Emerald’s General Manager on January 1, 2022. While this particular role is new, I’ve actually been with the utility for nearly a dozen years.