Florida Public Powercast

Stephanie Madden, City Commissioner and liaison to Lakeland Electric, offers a perspective not often heard on the podcast: what it looks like to regulate a municipal utility as an elected official. Her connection to the industry runs deep, shaped by a grandfather who spent his career in electric and an uncle who worked as a lineman, and deepened further through her involvement with FMEA and the Am...

Glen Moehling, Utility Compliance, Safety, and Workforce Development Manager at Ocala Electric Utility, joins Steve Vancore to discuss what a genuine safety culture looks like in practice. Glen is quick to put awards in perspective: recognition is secondary to the real goal of making sure everyone goes home safely every day. That means stopping work when incidents occur to conduct forensic analysi...

Kevin Guthrie, Executive Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM), discusses the 2026 hurricane season with a straightforward message: "Be ready for your one." Guthrie unpacks Florida's "Let's prepare to recover" philosophy, covering the practical steps that bring it to life: filling out forms correctly,  providing required documentation, and F-ROC (Florida's Recovery Obliga...

Steve sits down with Mike Crow, Assistant General Manager for Power Delivery at the City of Tallahassee, for a timely conversation recorded in April 2026 as hurricane season preparations ramp up. They open with a proud local note: Tallahassee's recent win at the FMEA Florida Lineman Competition. Mike pulls back the curtain on what utility hurricane preparedness looks like day-to-day, walking t...

Clint Bullock, General Manager & CEO of the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC), traces his journey from intern to chief executive, and shares what's behind OUC's standing as The  Reliable  One with just 32.8 minutes of average outage time per customer per year. He reflects on how the definition of "reliable" has evolved: sustained outages that were once tolerated are now unac...

Randy Knight, City Manager of Winter Park, joins host Steve Vancore to reflect on one of the most consequential decisions in the city's history — the municipalization of its electric utility. Randy walks through the defining moments that led Winter Park to pursue public power, from growing frustrations with its investor-owned utility to a bold vision for what local control could mean for the c...

In Episode 3 of the Florida Public Powercast, James Alexander, Senior Technical Trainer at the Orlando Utilities Commission, and Daniel Bland, Line Crew Supervisor at the City of Tallahassee, mark the 25th anniversary of FMEA’s Florida Lineman Competition.  James, a former state, national, and international lineman champion who later served as Chief Judge and now chairs the Florida Lineman Competi...

In this episode of the Florida Public Powercast, host Steve Vancore is joined by Ed Liberty, President of the Florida Municipal Electric Association and Director of Electric Utilities for the City of Lake Worth Beach. Ed shares his career path in public power and details the multi-year transformation of Lake Worth Beach’s electric utility. He explains how improvements began with culture and commun...

In the first episode of the Florida Public Powercast, host Steve Vancore talks with Amy Zubaly, Executive Director of the Florida Municipal Electric Association, about how public power works in Florida. Amy explains FMEA’s role in advocacy, mutual aid coordination, and member education, and why the Powercast was created as a new way to communicate with stakeholders. She discusses the challenges ut...