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Several Kentucky Power employees got together on a very chilly first day of November to volunteer at Facing Hunger Food Bank’s mobile pantry in Greenup. Local residents were lined up hours ahead of start time for the event, which took place at the Greenup County Fairgrounds.

Big Sandy Power Plant recently received a much-needed upgrade. The original switchgear, which had successfully served the plant for all of its 60 years, was recently replaced. This significant capital upgrade project is an improvement not only for reliability, but also safety. 

At the Kentucky Association for Economic Development’s (KAED) Kentucky Economic Forum held this week at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, a Kentucky Power employee was named a 2023 Allied Professional of the Year.

Weather events and age can put a strain on the energy grid and available power supplies. That’s why strategic planning to increase reliability through maintenance and improvements of power delivery infrastructure is a top priority for Kentucky Power.

Kentucky Power recently added a Patriot 50 digger derrick to its fleet. This ride-on, off-road machine will improve restoration efforts and overall reliability with its quick pole replacement capabilities in difficult terrain that has required manual work or the use of smaller, less efficient equipment.

Another successful Power Up the Pantry event is in the books for Kentucky Power and WYMT, which partner to present the annual food drive. On Thursday, food collection sites across eastern Kentucky collected nearly 4,000 pounds of nonperishable food items and more than $27,000, which benefit God’s Pantry and Facing Hunger food banks.

One year ago today, a 12-hour deluge brought massive flash flooding and caused landslides in Kentucky Power’s southeastern region.

A ground breaking ceremony in July marked the beginning of a new chapter for a family that lost everything in the floods that devastated several counties in Kentucky Power's southeastern service area. Thanks to a grant made by the AEP Foundation to the Housing Development Alliance in Hazard, this family and several more will have a new house to call "home." 

Kentucky Power’s future plans for providing safe, reliable power will be outlined in an upcoming filing with the Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC).

There’s a neighborhood in Hazard that’s taken the title “new” to the next level. Residents of the Gurney’s Bend neighborhood, along with stakeholders in the project, recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially begin their lives in the first new subdivision constructed in Hazard in 50 years. Construction of the much-needed neighborhood was, in part, thanks to a $100,000 contribution made by Kentucky Power through the AEP Foundation.