Awards

2023

Excellence in Reliability Award
American Public Power Association
This award recognizes the top quarter of municipal electric utilities in the nation for their reliability metrics.

Safety Award
Florida Municipal Electric Association
This award recognizes utilities for their 2022 safety record and efforts to ensure worker and crew safety is the highest priority.

Healthy Workforce Designation
Cigna
This award recognizes recognizes a group of organizations for the difference they are making in the health and well-being of their employees in areas such as program foundations and whole-person health

Top Workplace
Orlando Sentinel

Restoring Communities Award
Florida Municipal Electric Association

Building Strong Communities Award
Florida Municipal Electric Association

Smart Energy Provider Designation
American Public Power Association

Customer Satisfaction Award
American Public Power Association

Excellence in Public Power Communications
American Public Power Association

2022

Digital Utility Transformation Award
Advanced Utility Systems
The award recognizes KUA for excellence in providing customer-centric innovation via multiple technology enhancements to improve the customer experience. KUA was selected for the award from over 100 international utilities across the US, Canada, and South America.

Top Power Plant Award
POWER Magazine
The award recognizes top-performing power plants that have distinguished themselves as industry leaders through equipment enhancements, innovative design, and successful operations.

Sue Kelly Community Service Award
American Public Power Association
The award recognizes “good neighbor” activities that demonstrate the commitment of the utility and its employees to the community.

Excellence in Public Power Communications Award
American Public Power Association
This award recognizes electric utilities in three categories: print/digital, video and web/social media.

Beautification & Innovation Award
Downtown Kissimmee Council – The Osceola Chamber
Every two months the DKC selects a Downtown Kissimmee business or organization that has made significant improvements to the exterior or interior areas of their business location. The DKC was proud to be able to name KUA and the City of Kissimmee February and March’s recipients of the award.

Restoring Communities Award
Florida Municipal Electric Association
The award recognizes utilities for their mutual aid efforts to restore power in your own community or a fellow community in need following extreme weather or other events.

Excellence in Reliability Award
American Public Power Association
This award recognizes the top quarter of municipal electric utilities in the nation for their reliability metrics.

Smart Energy Provider Designation
American Public Power Association
The SEP designation, which lasts for two years (Dec. 1, 2021 to Nov. 30, 2023), recognizes public power utilities for demonstrating leading practices in four key disciplines: smart energy program structure; energy efficiency and distributed energy programs; environmental and sustainability initiatives; and customer experience. KUA is one of more than 90 public power utilities nationwide that hold the SEP designation. KUA also earned the SEP designation in 2019.