Oklahoma Cooperative Chooses Not to Suspend Service for Nonpayment
Posted on Aug 3, 2011 in Economic Downturn | Comments Off on Oklahoma Cooperative Chooses Not to Suspend Service for Nonpayment
In light of high temperatures into the foreseeable future, Oklahoma Electric Cooperative, which has 10,000 customers in Norman, Oklahoma, has decided that it will not suspend service to customers due to nonpayment. The Norman Transcript has additional details.
Vermont Electric Coop Wins POWER Magazine Smart Grid Award
Posted on Aug 2, 2011 in Environmental, Grid & Infrastructure | Comments Off on Vermont Electric Coop Wins POWER Magazine Smart Grid Award
Vermont Electric Cooperative (VEC) was recognized as the winner of the inaugural POWER Smart Grid Award. Among other smart grid technologies, VEC has implemented bidirectional meters, a new GPS-enabled outage management system, substation upgrades, and online access to electricity usage information. These efforts have cut outages in the VEC territory in half. They have also reduced...
Tenth Circuit Reinstates Coop Lawsuit Against Municipality
Posted on Aug 2, 2011 in Litigation | Comments Off on Tenth Circuit Reinstates Coop Lawsuit Against Municipality
An appeals court decision handed down last Friday could have important implications in the competition between municipal utilities and rural electric cooperatives. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Kay Electric Cooperative can sue the City of Newkirk, Oklahoma, for allegedly violating the federal antitrust law in a fight over which electrical utility can serve the new...
Barnstable County Seeks Information from Cape and Vineyard Electric Cooperative
Posted on Aug 1, 2011 in Legislative & Politics, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Barnstable County Seeks Information from Cape and Vineyard Electric Cooperative
The Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates, the county’s legislative branch, will have to retake a vote to look into the Cape and Vineyard Electric Cooperative (CVEC) after the county’s legal counsel explained that the earlier vote was not binding because it was not a true majority vote. The assembly wants to form a special panel to specifically investigate CVEC’s administrative...
Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association Members Warned of Rate Hike
Posted on Aug 1, 2011 in Project Development, Rates | Comments Off on Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association Members Warned of Rate Hike
At the annual meeting last Thursday, Illinois-based Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association Board President Paul Pyatt and Executive Vice President/General Manager Jim Riddle explained that a rate increase likely would occur when Prairie State Energy Campus comes online. The new energy campus will help provide energy for a load that Pyatt and Riddle say has almost doubled in the...
New Mexico Electric Cooperative Strives to Comply with Sunshine Laws
Posted on Aug 1, 2011 in Corporate Governance, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on New Mexico Electric Cooperative Strives to Comply with Sunshine Laws
For the second time this month, Socorro Electric Cooperative’s board of trustees held a meeting in an effort to comply with a revised set of bylaws that require the coop to follow sunshine laws. The board is having difficulty giving final approval on changes to their policies affected by the bylaw changes due to the lack of recording the outcome of votes during past meetings. To read...
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