Become A Member
The Utilities Service Alliance (USA) enables members to operate as a connected fleet—aligning on standards, practices, and priorities to reduce fragmentation and unlock significant cost savings. USA accelerates performance improvement through spend category standardization, shared best practices, coordinated supply chain, outage, operations and maintenance strategies that scale. USA equips Members with proven solutions, transparent benchmarking, and a continuous pipeline of value opportunities. Through structured collaboration and a trusted network of peers and suppliers, Members achieve faster problem-solving, stronger supplier influence, and sustained operational and financial impact. Members realize safety, operations and supply chain benefits through:
If you’re interested in becoming a member, please contact Clint Carter at USA.
Engagement + Networking
- Invitation to USA Executive Summit + Supplier Showcase (annually each June)
- Invitation to USA Supply Chain Management Winter Conference (annually each January)
- Supplier Fairs held at Member Sites (rotate between members for 3-4 Supplier Fairs annually)
Safety & Operational Value
- Nuclear Safety Culture Assessments ($100,000 value free to USA Members annually)
- Industry MOV and AOV Valve Team
- Facilitated Benchmarking for Fleetwide learning
- Technical Jump-Up Calls
- USA Peer Teams with Monthly Rhythms of Engagement
Financial Value
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Access to exclusive USA Negotiated Supplier-Partner Contracts
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Repeatable Spend & Savings financial execution model anchored in measurable value:
- First-Cost Savings: Discounts resulting in lower price than USA Member would otherwise receive from supplier
- Volume Incentive Rebate: Rebates are paid annually by supplier-partners to USA who then distributes rebate funds to sites according to site utilization of supplier-partner agreement.
- TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) Savings: The total financial impact of doing business with your organization instead of the status quo or your competition. TCO aims to monetize across the full lifecycle the intangible value of working with your organization to solve problems. Example: doing a reverse engineering or commercial grade dedication project to avoid an expensive engineering modification. TCO savings can be calculated in a variety of categories, including reduced dose, cost avoidance, critical path time savings, etc. Here’s where you can monetize your differentiator, i.e. Reduce outage duration by X% resulting in $Y savings this fiscal year.
- Programs & Projects: USA coordinates a variety of programs and projects fleetwide that yield measurable savings, including personnel sharing, tool and equipment sharing and much more.
USA aligns members as a connected fleet, utilizing shared standards and peer collaboration to drive operational excellence and significant cost savings.
USA Members
Whether joining as a Class A Member (nuclear utility operators) or a Class C Member (non-utility), USA Members enjoy:
1. Increased Purchasing Power
- Standardization of suppliers and spend categories results in volume leverage across utilities
- 5-10 Year Long Range Plans aggregated across USA Member Fleet optimize fleet alignment on capital investments and operations and maintenance budgets for Electrical Power Uprates, License Extensions, License Amendments, Digital Modernization, Outage Excellence, and Fuel Cycle Management
2. Access to Proven Solutions
- Implement strategies and supplier-partner solutions already validated across multiple utilities
- Reduce risk, implementation time, and cost of experimentation
- Accelerate improvements in maintenance, outages, and supply chain
3. Cross-Utility Benchmarking
- Visibility into peer performance and best-in-class metrics and procedures for Equipment Reliability
- Identify gaps and opportunities across the fleet
- Data-driven decision making on cost and performance
4. Stronger Supplier Performance
- Align expectations and standardize requirements
- Improve pricing, performance, and accountability
- Shift from managing vendors to shaping the supplier ecosystem to support vendors in delivering nuclear professionalism, quality and competitive lead times
5. Continuous Value Pipeline
- Generate cost-saving and innovative performance improvement opportunities
- Conferences facilitate a forum for improved Member and Supplier-Partner collaboration
- Proactively identify and scale high-impact initiatives
6. Structured Collaboration & Faster Problem Solving
- Defined KPI’s, workstreams and repeatable execution model with measurable results
- Peer Teams provide rapid access to peer insights and supplier expertise
- Reduce downtime and eliminate duplicated effort across utilities
| Board of Directors | 1st Thursday @ 12:00 PM (Every Other Month) |
| Site Vice Presidents | 1st Wednesday @ 1:00 PM |
| Plant Managers | 2nd Wednesday @ 10:00 AM |
| Engineering Team | 3rd Wednesday @ 2:00 PM |
| Maintenance | 2nd Wednesday @ 1:00 PM |
| Chemistry Team | 3rd Thursday @ 1:00 PM |
| Communications Team | 2nd Tuesday @ 1:00 PM |
| Cyber-Security | 1st Thursday @ 2:30 PM |
| Drones and Robotics Team | 4th Thursday @ 10:00 AM (Every Other Month) |
| Emergency Preparedness Team | 3rd Wednesday @ 1:00 PM |
| Innovations Steering Committee | 4th Wednesday @ 10:00 AM (Every Other Month) |
| Industrial Safety Team | 2nd Monday @ 2:00 PM |
| Operations Peer Team | 2nd Thursday @ 1:00 PM |
| Outage Excellence Team | 3rd Thursday @ 11:00 AM (Every Other Month) |
| Personnel Share Team | 2nd Thursday @ 11:00 AM |
| Procurement Engineering | 1st Wednesday @ 10:00 AM |
| Radiation Protection Team | 3rd Tuesday @ 2:00 PM |
| Security | 1st Thursday @ 1:30 PM |
| Shared Tool and Equipment Team | 4th Tuesday @ 12:00 PM (Every Other Month) |
| Site Rep Team | 1st Wednesday @ 2:00 PM |
| Supply Chain Team | 2nd Thursday @ 12:00 PM |
| Training Team | 2nd Tuesday @ 12:00 PM |
| Work Management | 3rd Thursday @ 12:00 PM (Every Other Month) |