The City of Wadsworth owns and operates its own electric distribution system. Electricity is purchased from American Municipal Power of Ohio, a group of municipally owned and operated electric system throughout Ohio, and serves over 10,000 customers. Local ownership insures a greater commitment to service for residential, commercial, and industrial users. The municipal system also provides free street lighting, free electricity for city operations, and rates for customers which are on the average 40% lower than those available through privately-owned utilities. In addition, the system is highly reliable due to a well-designed loop system that prevents brownouts and minimizes outages. The City presently has five substations with plans to add a new 138,000Kv delivery point and two new substations in 1999.

  In the last few years, the City has installed over 13 miles of fiber optic cable to interconnect city government buildings, electric substations (SCADA system) and schools. The schools presently enjoy fiber optic connectivity of their Novell based ethernet for supplemental student education (Money Magazine January 1996 vol. 25 No.1 page 108).

Wadsworth Communications Network (WCN)
Additional fiber and coaxial cable plant has been added to provide cable television service to the local community. The cable plant is currently under construction and new customers are added daily. This HFC (Hybrid Fiber/Coaxial) multimedia network is a two way system capable of providing internet services, security services, remote meter reading, load management and telephony.

The city is also participating in a project to connect all county high schools and selected public buildings with fiber optic cable to local Universities for educational purposes.

  Additional general information and questions about specific needs can be directed to the Electrical Distribution Superintendent at (330) 334-1581.

For Cable Television information, click http://www.wadsnet.com/tv

For High Speed Internet Information, click  http://www.wadsnet.com/

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