Over 100 years ago, Kaysville city leaders had the foresight to form a municipal power department. The power companies at the time were not able to supply reliable and consistent power to the community. They would only serve certain portions and did not seem interested in supplying electricity to everyone. 

Since Kaysville does not have any power generation facilities, it joined a co-op call UAMPS (Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems) which builds and runs power generation projects shared by all member communities. This co-op has grown from just serving Utah communities to now serving local power departments in California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming. Kaysville enjoys some of the lowest power rates in the intermountain area through UAMPS. In fact, power rates have not been raised in many years. 

Kaysville’s Power Department has a qualified and dedicated team of professionals who work every day to make sure that our power is available 24 hours a day. They have been investing about $2 million per year in improving the electric power system. Last year, a reliability study was conducted to find added improvements needed to keep the power system and it supplied a road map for the next 5-10 years to ensure that the power department can meet the needs of our residents as the city continues to grow. 

As a confirmation of the excellence of the power department, Kaysville Power has been recognized as a top 25% most reliable municipal utilities in the USA by the American Public Power Association. They also received the Smart Energy Innovation Award from UAMPS. They have consistently been recognized by the Intermountain Power Superintendents Associations for low accident frequency (receiving 1st place honors). 

The Smart Innovation Award recognizes member utilities for undertaking system upgrades, capital improvements and preventative maintenance measures to modernize facilities, improve system reliability, reduce losses, reduce outage times or improve power quality. Kaysville City Power & Light has made improvements in their system and have completed other projects on top of all the building and normal upgrades to the system. They completed an entire Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) meter change out of 10,000 meters, all done in-house. The AMI meters improve outage response and staff receives an email the second the power goes off to each meter. The new meters also check power quality to notify staff if there is a connection problem. Kaysville often responds before they even get a call from their customers.

They also changed out 1,097 street lights from High Pressure Sodium (HPS) to energy-efficient LED lighting, using less than one third of the electricity than before. Kaysville Power and Light also received a grant from Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) and installed nine dual outlet electric vehicle charging stations around Kaysville City. These charging stations are free to the public at this time.

The Kaysville Power Commission (made up of Kaysville residents) handles recommending how to set and manage the rate structure to ensure that Kaysville’s power department is run effectively, efficiently and has the resources needed to continue to invest in our Power Delivery System. This year, Kaysville City Power is being run by new Superintendent Brian Johnson.l