The Los Angeles agency in charge of the city’s electricity wants to create its own armed police force to combat the the epidemic of thieves stealing valuable copper wire from streetlights. The LA Department of Water and Power made the request in a letter sent to the City Council,

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power seeks to establish an armed police force to combat copper theft, which has caused significant infrastructure damage. The proposal, requiring voter and state approval,

The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners recently approved the Utah Solar 1 Power Sales Agreement (PSA) and Agency Agreement (AA) between LADWP and the Southern California Public

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power wants its own armed police force to guard the city’s power grid, reservoirs, and streetlights as copper theft and other threats to infrastructure keep climbing.

The LADWP said bout 10 services have been impacted in the surrounding area.

Janisse Quiñones, head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, shown in 2024, will work on modernizing Puerto Rico's electric grid. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) The head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is stepping ...

The solar project in Utah, US, will deliver electricity to Los Angeles homes, beginning in mid-2027.