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Alger Delta Cooperative Electric Association Celebrates 80th Anniversary

Alger Delta Cooperative Electric Association Celebrates 80th Anniversary

MECA2017-10-16T10:29:37-04:00October 16th, 2017|MECA News|

Alger Delta Cooperative Electric Association (Alger Delta) celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. Alger Delta Electric is a proud member of WPPI Energy, a not-for-profit wholesale energy provider and joint action agency. The co-op’s milestone anniversary was recognized at an awards luncheon during WPPI Energy’s annual meeting in September. Alger Delta’s CEO Tom Harrell, Directors Mike Lawless (District 3, Grand Marais) and Darryl Small [...]

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Michigan utility lineworkers begin next chapter of training

MECA2017-10-04T16:23:27-04:00October 3rd, 2017|MECA News|

Virtual Reality Advertising. Virtual Reality Advertising When Wolverine Power Cooperative (Wolverine) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 876 (IBEW Local 876) announced a partnership in May to continue utility linemen training in the state of Michigan, their partnership marked the beginning of the new Joint Michigan Apprentice Program (JMAP). The program’s inaugural class began in September, welcoming 61 apprentices from 28 Michigan [...]

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MECA Hosts Co-op Foundations Workshop

MECA Hosts Co-op Foundations Workshop

MECA2017-09-29T14:05:10-04:00September 21st, 2017|MECA News|

MECA hosted an Electric Cooperative Foundations workshop at the Wolverine Power Cooperative office in Cadillac on Sept. 20. “This workshop has three main goals,” said Doug Snitgen, Executive Vice President at MECA. “We want every participant to gain a better understanding of the cooperative model, connect the cooperative principles and values to their own daily work, and meet employees from other Michigan co-ops [...]

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Michigan Co-ops Head To Georgia To Assist With Hurricane Restoration Efforts

MECA2017-09-12T10:13:49-04:00September 11th, 2017|MECA News|

Hurricane Irma has plowed into Georgia leaving hundreds of thousands in the state without power. Today, 31 Michigan co-op linemen are headed south to help Georgia co-ops, Irwin EMC and Middle Georgia EMC, bring the lights back on. The Michigan team will stay in southern Indiana tonight. After a safety briefing tomorrow morning lead by Joe McElroy, MECA's safety director, the group will [...]

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HomeWorks Tri-County holds 80th Annual Meeting, Complete With Live Streaming

HomeWorks Tri-County holds 80th Annual Meeting, Complete With Live Streaming

MECA2017-08-30T14:50:11-04:00August 30th, 2017|MECA News|

A day in the life of a lineman and the Michigan Partners for Power 2018 project in Bolivia headlined the 80th Annual Meeting of HomeWorks Tri-County Electric Cooperative on August 19 in Mount Pleasant. Blanchard linemen Rick Warchuck and Cody Teegardin talked about their jobs as linemen and how being away from home for mutual aid during storms affects their families. Both men [...]

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Wolverine Purchases New Home For Apprentice Education

MECA2017-08-08T14:02:43-04:00August 8th, 2017|MECA News|

Wolverine Power Cooperative announced today an agreement to purchase Baker College of Cadillac’s Center for Transportation and Technology (CTT). The facility, located at 4800 S. Morey Road (M-66) in Lake City, Mich., will become a state-of-the-art electric utility training center, and house the Joint Michigan Apprentice Program (JMAP). "Michigan electric cooperatives have a rich tradition of training utility apprentices spanning the last 30 years [...]

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Cherryland Doubles Voter Participation With Online Voting

Cherryland Doubles Voter Participation With Online Voting

MECA2017-06-27T09:59:11-04:00June 26th, 2017|MECA News|

Cherryland members were introduced to a new voting option for the 2017 board election. In addition to voting via a mail-in ballot or in-person at the annual meeting, members could cast their vote using any device with an internet connection. Cherryland partnered with Survey & Ballot Systems of Minnesota to administer the voting. The outcome? The 2017 board election had the most ballots cast [...]

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Ontonagon Annual Meeting Highlights

Ontonagon Annual Meeting Highlights

MECA2017-06-26T13:20:17-04:00June 21st, 2017|MECA News, Uncategorized|

Chassell High School was the setting for the 2017 Ontonagon County Rural Electrification Association’s (OCREA’s) Annual Meeting held on Saturday, June 17. Approximately 150 members from the co-op’s five county service area attended the event which featured food, prize drawings, reports from the co-op manager and the board of directors and seating of new directors. According to General Manager Debbie Miles, “This is [...]

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Fall Training Registration is Now Open

MECA2017-05-25T10:31:51-04:00May 25th, 2017|MECA News|

Online registration is now open for both the Electric Co-op Foundations and Member Services training sessions this fall! Member Services Training About the course This course focuses on customer communication skills and is designed to help each service provider understand the importance of providing positive “moments of truth” through each and every encounter he or she has with customers. An emphasis will be [...]

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Bob Hance Testifies in Front of Senate Agriculture Committee

Bob Hance Testifies in Front of Senate Agriculture Committee

MECA2017-05-10T13:20:38-04:00May 9th, 2017|MECA News|

Midwest Energy Cooperative’s CEO, Bob Hance, was invited by U.S. Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas to testify before the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee in Frankenmuth last Saturday, May 6. Mr. Roberts is the Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman and hails from Kansas. The title of the hearing was "Growing Jobs and Economic Opportunity: Perspectives on the 2018 Farm Bill from Michigan." Both MECA and [...]

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