Northern California Power Agency

07/07/2026

Roseville Electric is proud to announce that our CEO, Dan Beans, has been named Chair-Elect to the Board of Directors of the American Public Power Association (APPA).

As Chair-Elect, Dan joins the board’s senior leadership, serving as a close advisor to the chair and bringing Roseville Electric’s perspective into national conversations on energy policy, reliability, and the future of community-owned utilities.

This role is a direct reflection of our mission: delivering exceptional reliability, customer experience, and advocacy in a transforming industry. The advocacy piece has never been more important. As the energy landscape continues to evolve, having a community-owned utility represented at the highest levels of our national association means the priorities of customers like ours have a voice in shaping what comes next.

Congratulations to Dan on this well-earned recognition and thank you to our entire team for the work that makes leadership like this possible.

03/31/2026

Thank you to U.S. Department of Energy Acting Deputy Director of Grid Infrastructure Deployment (and Sacramento native!) Amanda Bradshaw for presenting today before the Transmission Access Policy Study Group (TAPS). We appreciate your valuable insights and leadership on energy policies to promote the reliability of our nation’s electric grid!

TAPS is an association of transmission-dependent electric utilities advocating for open and equitable transmission access, competitive wholesale electric markets, and a strong, resilient grid.

03/30/2026

22% of Californians receive power from California Municipal Utilities Association (CMUA) electric utilities. These community-owned utilities are focused on providing safe, affordable, and reliable power to our communities, and preparing to meet our state’s future power needs.

Last week, NCPA joined partner community-owned utilities from across the state at the CMUA Annual Conference in Monterey. This event provides a valuable opportunity for collaboration, information sharing, and briefings on important issues impacting public power.

Andre Basler, Director of Utilities at the Port of Oakland, an NCPA Member Utility, highlighted efforts to support innovation and growth at the Port. NCPA General Manager Randy Howard also spoke at the Conference, sharing his reflections on 40+ years in public power, and a positive outlook for the future. “The technologies have changed, some of the policies have changed, but our core responsibility remains: Serving our communities with reliable, affordable power.”

02/09/2026

Whether you were rooting for the Seahawks or the Patriots (or Bad Bunny), the at the Super Bowl yesterday was strong!

Shoutout to NCPA member Silicon Valley Power (SVP) for keeping Levi’s Stadium lit, loud, and fully online when the stakes were high.

Silicon Valley Power is a not-for-profit, community-owned electric utility that has served Santa Clara for nearly 130 years. Today, SVP serves a peak load of approximately 746 MW, all while keeping rates about half the price of neighboring communities.

🏈⚡ It’s game day!

While the big game takes center stage, Silicon Valley Power crews are behind the scenes keeping Santa Clara powered up.

From stadium lights to living room TVs, our teams are locked in, monitoring systems, prepping crews, and keeping power on so you can focus on the game.
Big plays. Big moments. Reliable power.

We power that.

Enjoy the game, we’ve got it covered. 💡🔥

02/04/2026

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and data centers is reshaping California's energy landscape, creating unprecedented demand on our electric grid. At NCPA, we believe meeting this new load growth requires an examination of additional resources that can both meet our state’s decarbonization goals and provide the future power supply needed to meet these growing needs. With recent policy changes making the deployment of offshore wind and hydrogen in our state more challenging, it’s important that we take steps now to extend the operation of baseload resources like Diablo Canyon, and create a pathway for access to out-of-state generation from future small modular reactors.

These steps are key to supporting the digital economy without compromising grid stability or affordability for our communities.

Reliability is the foundation of innovation.

01/29/2026

Nico Procos, Silicon Valley Power’s Electric Utility Director, testified today during the Assembly Utilities and Energy and Privacy and Consumer Protection Committees’ joint oversight hearing on the energy impacts of , to present on the historic load growth challenges posed by and AI’s impact on California’s grid.

During his testimony, Nico outlined how NCPA member Silicon Valley Power in the City of Santa Clara is laying the groundwork to meet the AI moment, including a $459 million investment in a system expansion program, designed to double electric load capacity to meet current and future demand. The utility has also developed innovative programs to assure that the influx of data centers in their city aligns with their community’s long-term values and goals, including environmental sustainability and electricity affordability.

Thank you to Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee Chair Cottie Petrie-Norris for the opportunity to present on this timely issue, and for the Committee’s continued focus on the policy issues of importance to California’s electricity consumers.

01/27/2026

We’ve had a busy start to the week in Sacramento, wrapping up a successful 2026 Public Power , culminating in the presentation of our 2026 NCPA Public Power Champion Award.

On Monday, NCPA members—including several elected and appointed officials from our communities—met with state lawmakers to advance consumer-focused, clean energy policies to ensure a reliable and affordable electricity supply for California. We’re pleased to see growing interest in action on the pressing issues surrounding liability reform, and streamlined permitting to both advance clean goals and harden infrastructure to prevent future wildfires.

We closed out with NCPA Chair and Mayor of the City of Biggs, Bo Sheppard, and CEO and Electric Utility Director for the City of Roseville, Dan Beans, presenting this year’s Public Power Champion Award to Assemblyman Joe Patterson. This recognition honors his work to advance common-sense policies that benefit public power customers and communities across California.

Thank you to everyone who joined us to advocate for energy policies that advance affordability and provide needed solutions to the challenges facing the electricity sector today.



See Pictured: Assemblymember Marc Berman, Assemblyman Joe Patterson, Assemblymember Chris Rogers, Assembly Utilities and Energy Chair Cottie Petrie-Norris, and Senator Megan Dahle.

01/23/2026

Our policy discussions during this week’s NCPA Strategic Issues Conference have had several recurring themes—including the need for wildfire liability reform, the value of new resources—including small modular reactors and hydrogen—to meet California’s energy goals, and next steps on the implementation of a regional market in the West.

We were honored to have outstanding speakers join us to highlight these and other issues, including Maria Pope, President and Chief Executive Officer of Portland General Electric; Senator Mike McGuire , Senate President pro Tem Emeritus; Senator Tim Grayson, Majority Whip of the California State Senate; Assemblymember Chris Rogers; Christine Hironaka, Senior Advisor, and Grant Mack, Deputy Legislative Secretary from the Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom; Kathleen Staks, Executive Director, Western Freedom Co.; Elliot Mainzer, President and CEO of the California ISO; Paul Lau, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD); Kurt Miller, CEO and Executive Director of the Northwest Public Power Association - NWPPA, and; Phyllis Currie, Retired General Manager, Pasadena Water and Power.

As Maria Pope said this week, “There is no question we are all better off when we work together,” and we’re so very pleased to have had the opportunity this week to examine these issues and identify areas of shared interest and concern across the electricity industry.

01/21/2026

Welcome to Sacramento! We’re live at our annual Strategic Issues Conference this morning, and look forward to hearing from policymakers and thought leaders on the key energy policy issues that will shape California’s legislative and regulatory agenda in the coming year. Thank you to Assemblymember Chris Rogers for kicking off our program with valuable insights on wildfire policy and electricity affordability.

01/16/2026

NCPA applauds the California State Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee’s passage of AB 34.

By helping to ensure that public power communities continue to receive the full value of longstanding investments in clean, emission-free energy from the federal hydropower resources of the Central Valley Project, the committee has taken an important step toward protecting electricity affordability for consumers in Northern California.

NCPA thanks Assemblymember Joe Patterson, State Senator Josh Becker, and Assemblymember Marc Berman for their leadership on this vital extension of existing state policy in this area.