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2025: A year of service, innovation and collaboration

Hear from Director Jackie Flowers.
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Continuing to provide clean, reliable, and equitable services

In 2025, we delivered essential services with dedication, innovation, and a focus on the people we serve.

For an overview of our divisions’ financials, view the 2025 financial highlights for Tacoma Power, Tacoma Water, and Tacoma Rail.

Meet the 2025 Public Utility Board

Meet the 2025 TPU Executive Leadership Team

Cushman power line

Mayfield Lake Park

2025 Tacoma Power Highlights

Tacoma Power delivers clean, reliable services essential to quality of life. For over 130 years, we have generated clean, renewable hydropower to provide reliable, affordable electricity for our customers. 

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2025 Tacoma Water Highlights

Tacoma Water provides high-quality, reliable drinking water to customers across Tacoma and partner service areas. In 2025, the division continued its long-standing commitment to stewardship, system resiliency, customer support, and equitable water service. 

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Tacoma Public Utilities’ old water sign at the treatment facility. 

Inside of a Tacoma Water Pump Station.

Tacoma Rail locomotive

Interior of a Tacoma Rail tamping machine

2025 Tacoma Rail Highlights

Tacoma Rail has provided efficient, cost-effective rail service since 1914. In 2025, we continued to deliver safe, reliable operations across the Port of Tacoma, Tacoma’s industrial areas (Tidelands Division), and Lakeview (Capital Division). Strong performance metrics and ongoing technology improvements reinforced Tacoma Rails reputation as a reliable, customer focused freight provider supporting regional economic activity. 

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2025 Management Services Office Highlights

The Management Services Office (MSO) provides essential administrative and operational support across Tacoma Public Utilities (TPU). MSO oversees utility-wide budget and financial management, risk, records management, public disclosure, and employee safety during emergencies. In 2025, we also launched the People & Culture Program to strengthen belonging, workforce development, and the employee experience. 

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An emergency manager hands out preparedness information

Aerial view of a modern office building beside a curving road, landscaped sidewalks, and a mostly empty parking lot surrounded by trees.

Customer service staff member with customer

Female TPU customer service representative talking to a customer on a phone headset sits at a computer similing.

2025 Customer Experience & External Affairs Highlights

Customer Experience & External Affairs (CXEA) helps make utility services more accessible, equitable, and responsive. Guided by our North Star commitment ensuring customers and the community experience compassion and equity in action, CXEA creates meaningful interactions that help customers feel understood, valued, and empowered. CXEA includes Customer Services, Communications, Community & Government Relations, and Market Strategy & Analytics. Together, these teams support hundreds of thousands of customer interactions each month, strengthen community relationships, drive customer experience improvements, and support employee giving and volunteerism.  

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