The City of Wadsworth Electric and Communication Department received the Certificate of Excellence in Reliability and a first-place Safety Award, both of which are presented by the American Public Power Association (APPA). The Certificate of Excellence in Reliability recognizes utilities that placed in the top 25 percentile of reliability nationwide in 2019, as measured against the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) data. The APPA Safety Awards recognize utilities with the lowest safety incidence rate within their group of like-sized utilities in 2019.