LOS ANGELES (November 21, 2017) — Mayor Eric Garcetti today lifted the emergency declaration he initiated in March to protect the lands and communities near the Los Angeles Aqueduct from flooding created by record snowpack in the Eastern Sierra. The declaration helped the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) respond to the threat […]
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LADWP Summer Shift Program Results in Energy and Cost-Savings for Large Business Customers in Wake of Heat Storms
LOS ANGELES (November 7, 2017) – The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP) Summer Shift Energy-Incentive Program has once again proven beneficial to large customers and the city as a whole with substantial energy and cost savings during the recent summer heat storms. Summer Shift helped incentivize large commercial and industrial customers to […]
LADWP Linemen Shine at International Lineman’s Rodeo
LOS ANGELES (November 7, 2017) – The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and IBEW Local 18 delivered another impressive performance in the 34th Annual International Lineman’s Rodeo & Expo on Saturday, October 14 in Bonner Springs, Kansas, as one of its teams finished third in a Journeyman category and three of its […]
LADWP to Brief Community Representatives about Equity Metrics Data Initiative
LADWP will provide a series of presentations to community representatives at upcoming meetings on the LADWP Equity Metrics Data Initiative (EMDI), established to track, measure and report on how LADWP programs are provided to all LADWP customers and residents of Los Angeles. Approved as part of the 2016 LADWP water and electric rate action, the […]
Urban Excellence Award Honors LADWP’s La Kretz Innovation Campus and City of Los Angeles’ Arts District Park
Award Funds to be used for LACI Educational Program Introducing Students from Disadvantaged Neighborhoods to Art and Innovation at Campus Advanced Prototyping Center LOS ANGELES (October 25, 2017) —The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) are proud to announce that the La Kretz […]
Pacific Palisades Power Outage
October 24, 2017 Due to extreme 100 degree + heat on the coast and across the Los Angeles Basin, at approximately 3:45 pm today, LADWP grid operators advised that two local power distribution stations in the Brentwood and Pacific Palisades areas were significantly overloaded. As a result, grid operators had to initiate outages in this […]