Cleveland Public Power hasn’t shed much light yet on its plan to update the 120-year-old utility after a summer of heat waves, storms and outages disrupted residents’ daily lives and hurt businesses’ bottom lines.
The city has known for years about troubles at CPP, which was founded in 1906 and serves 74,000 customers. A consulting report leaked to WKYC in 2020 described the utility as “mired in systemic, performance and financial issues,” with a system in an “unacceptable, unsafe” condition.
After outages this spring, Mayor Justin Bibb said a “transformation plan” to “modernize” the city-owned electric company was in the works. Months later, CPP hasn’t shared that plan with the public…