AMP Awards Program
The AMP Awards Program provides a great opportunity for AMP Members to draw attention to outstanding projects and people in their communities.
AMP Annual Awards
Members can nominate themselves or others for the American Municipal Power, Inc. (AMP) Annual Awards. Award recipients are recognized at the AMP Annual Conference, and are featured on AMP’s website, social media and our weekly newsletter.
Nominations for the Service Distinction Award are open year-round. Nominations for 2026 are now open until June 26, 2026.
System Improvement Awards
The System Improvement Awards are given in two categories and recognize utilities for promoting the interests of public power through projects that advance system reliability and resiliency and/or deploy technology. Additional consideration will be given to innovative or holistic approaches, with recognition that the significance of projects can be commensurate with system size.
- System Improvement — Grid Resilience Award: Recognizes projects or initiatives that strengthen grid reliability, enhance cybersecurity, or improve disaster preparedness for public power systems, resulting in overall improvement to electric service and reliability to customer-owners. Apply now.
- System Improvement — Technology Award: Recognizes utilities that demonstrate innovation and application of technology and data to improve operations, enhance customer experience, enhance efficiency and public power objectives. Apply now.
Safety Awards of Excellence
- Member System Safety Award: Recognizes municipal electric systems for their safety performance and encourages municipalities to improve their present safety program. Apply now.
- Hard Hat Safety Award: Honors utility employees who have contributed to safety within their community during the past year, shown adherence to on-the-job safety procedures, and promoted electrical safety within their department and community. Apply now.
Community and Workforce Development Awards
- Public Power Community Engagement and Service Award: Recognizes a public power utility for good neighbor activities that demonstrate the utility’s commitment to the community. In addition, it honors utilities that have taken significant strides to promote public power through marketing, consumer awareness and branding. The award celebrates initiatives that foster strong relationships with local community, improve customer service, engagement, and satisfaction through innovative tools, programs, or outreach. Additional consideration will be given to holistic and/or sustained efforts, with recognition that the significance of projects can be commensurate with system size. Apply now.
- Employee Engagement and Workforce Advancement Award: Recognizes utilities that invest in training, apprenticeships, networking and personal and professional development across all employee groups through continuing education, training, workshops, local/state/national conferences and attendance or participation in user/interest groups. In addition, recognizes utilities that invest in scholarship programs and career training programs to develop the next generation of public power professionals. Additional consideration will be given to utilities who invest in holistic and sustained programs across their entire utility workforce. Apply now.
Individual Recognition and Awards
- Managerial Excellence Award: Recognizes a top-level administrator or leader of a municipal electric system of any size who leads their public power system to excellence and who has been with their organization for at least five years. Winners may be considered for the American Public Power Association (APPA) Mark Crisson Leadership and Managerial Excellence Award. Apply now.
- Seven Hats Award: Recognizes a utility manager who serves a smaller community, and whose management responsibilities extend well beyond the scope of a manager in a larger system who has a larger staff. The award parallels APPA requirements. Apply now.
- AMP Rising Star: Recognizes up-and-coming leaders in public power who have made significant contributions and have demonstrated dedication to the goals and principles of public power. The award includes a scholarship of up to $1,000, toward the cost of attending an AMP conference (AMP Technical Services or AMP Annual Conference) or an AMP training program. Apply now.
View the current list of Rising Stars
- AMP Service Distinction: Recognizes utility employees, partners and consultants who have retired from service or who have announced they will be retiring soon and who have been dedicated to the betterment of public power communities over the course of their careers. Nominations are open year-round. Apply now.