Cloverland Plans Additional Community Outreach Meetings
Cloverland has held several community outreach meetings explaining the Preque Isle Power plant issue, and how it will drastically impact member’s rates starting Dec. 1. These meetings have been very successful, and the co-op has received requests to schedule additional meetings. The dates are as follows, all meetings begin at 6:30 p.m.: Thursday, Oct. 16: Kinross [...]
PIEG Annual Meeting Held in Posen
Approximately 500 people attended Presque Isle Electric & Gas Co-op’s 77th Annual Membership Meeting at Posen High School on October 24. Board Chairman John Brown stated “the annual meeting is a perfect example of our cooperative principles in action. Cooperatives are democratic organizations controlled by their members. Members have equal voting rights –one member, one [...]
Wolverine Co-op Plans New Natural Gas Power Plant
A new, natural gas-fueled electric generating plant is being planned by Wolverine Power Cooperative, of Cadillac. Called the Alpine Power Plant, its location will be in Elmira Township, Otsego County, west of Gaylord. Wolverine, a not-for-profit electric cooperative, provides wholesale electric power to six electric cooperatives throughout Michigan. “Wolverine is excited about moving forward [...]
Great Lakes Energy and Alger Delta Electric Co-ops Explore Merger
Great Lakes Energy (GLE) Cooperative, headquartered in Boyne City, MI, and Alger Delta Cooperative Electric Association, headquartered in Gladstone, MI, are engaged in discussions and associated due diligence to explore combining the two member-owned electric cooperatives into one larger organization. “We are excited about exploring the benefits of combining our two electric cooperatives,” said Richard [...]
Join Strategy Sharing At New ‘Innovative Power Summit’
“The power landscape is shifting. Help your co-op prepare.” is the theme of the new “Innovative Power Summit 2014” that NRECA has created to help electric co-ops shape their strategies and the course of the industry. Co-op communicators and finance professionals, engineering and technical staff, CEOs and others are invited to attend Oct. 28-30 at [...]
Electric Co-ops Send 1 million Comments To EPA, More To Come
America’s electric co-ops have marked a new milestone in their grassroots strength as we reach 1 million comments sent to the EPA in opposition to its proposed rule targeting existing power plants. Collected through http://action.coop and tellepa.com, the comments are coming from all 50 states. As of mid-October, 526 comments were from Michigan, and in [...]