Sunday Tornado, Wind Storms Rock Co-op Areas
A tornado touchdown and powerful thunderstorms with high winds damaged the power lines and areas served by nearly all nine electric co-ops and many municipal utilities on Aug. 2. “This storm, much like those from 2012 and 2013, was ‘all-in’, meaning almost every [...]
HomeWorks Line Crews Star in Video
To help members understand which part of their electric service is their responsibility and which part resides with the co-op, HomeWorks Tri- County has created a short video to show these differences. The co-op says this issue has come up in the past after wind and ice storms, when members waited for co-op crews to [...]
Great Lakes Offers Energy Seminars To Members
Great Lakes Energy (GLE) will again hold two energy seminars this fall to help their members learn about home heating and cooling options with geothermal and air-source heat pumps and the co-op’s Energy Optimization (EO) programs that offer incentives to help save energy. Incentives include rebates for buying furnaces with variable speed blower motors, heat [...]
Thayer To Receive Environmental Award At Conference
Michigan Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) has announced that its 2015 Outstanding Earth Steward Award will go to Art Thayer, energy efficiency director for the Michigan Electric Cooperative Association (MECA). Thayer will receive the award at IPL’s Green & Grow Your Congregation conference on Oct. 9 at The Peoples Church in East Lansing. The awards ceremony, [...]
Janway Retires From Wolverine
According to Danny Janway, the world is smaller than most of us give it credit for and it’s all part of the “Quilt of Life” - a patchwork of people and events that blend together to define us all. Janway grew up in the utility industry - his dad worked 28 years for Oklahoma Gas [...]
HomeWorks Re-elects Pohl, Oplinger
HomeWorks Tri-County Electric has wrapped up its seven district member meetings, with a total of over 1,300 people attending, and the return of $2.4 million in capital credit refunds to its members this year. Directors Luke Pohl (District 3) and Ed Oplinger (District 6) were re-elected, and both ran unopposed. Pohl is the owner of [...]