The US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) made several rounds of investment in nuclear plants of various designs in the late 1950s and sought to build prototype plants in actual, working locations spread around America-so long as the sites were logical and safe. Post cards showing the power plant were widely printed and sold. The plucky Ohioans had proven that even in the height of the Great Depression it was possible to make investments and advances, and no small amount of pride was taken in their achievement. The city built a municipal power plant and, in 1933, severed outside electric connections. Repeated negotiations lowered, then raised, and then lowered the rates until the ground swell by the Piqua town folk was large enough to take matters into their own hands. The city began to feel by the early 1930s that the prices charged by DP&L were far too high. Piqua had something of a history by this time when it came to electric power, because it had divorced itself from outside commercial supply and "done the job in house." In the early part of the century, after electrification came to town, the city had purchased electricity from Dayton Power & Light.
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