Overview

Santa Clara City Power is a city-owned power provider and is governed by the City Council. Our team of 6 full-time employees strive to provide the City of Santa Clara safe, affordable and reliable energy. The Power Department currently serves approximately 3,300 customers, including residential and commercial. SCP offers twenty-four hour dispatch service for maintenance and repairs for existing customers, and coordinates with the building department to hook up new customers in a timely manner. 

SCP has a diverse wholesale energy portfolio, including coal, hydro, wind, solar, waste heat recovery and natural gas. SCP also produces power internally and has 4 generators with a total of 9 MW generation capacity. SCP receives the remaining power requirements via transmission lines located throughout the state. SCP is a proud member of the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS)

Reliable Public Provider

Santa Clara City power Department has earned a Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3)® designation from the American Public Power Association for providing reliable and safe electric service. The RP3 designation recognizes public power utilities that demonstrate proficiency in four key disciplines: reliability, safety, workforce development, and system improvement. Criteria within each category are based on sound business practices and represent a utility-wide commitment to safe and reliable delivery of electricity. Currently Santa Clara City holds the RP3 designation level of Gold.