Legislators represent local consumer-members in key votes Being a legislator can be a thankless job. No matter how they vote or the many factors that affect their approach to an issue, Kentucky state lawmakers are often the targets of name-calling or worse, their very honor…
Healing life’s hurts WINCHESTER As a volunteer small group leader with Celebrate Recovery of Calvary Christian Church, Ken Bickham, a pricing analyst for East Kentucky Power Cooperative, headquartered in Winchester, knows that everyone experiences life’s hurts. So, when Ken and his wife, Alisa, got to…
Award was given in recognition of the 527,923 production hours worked by the employees at the plant without a lost-time incident FRANKFORT (April 15, 2019) – Danny E. Davis, Executive Advisor for the Kentucky Labor Cabinet’s Department of Workplace Standards, visited Big Rivers Electric…
Kentucky travel blogger takes the EV wheel The era of the electric vehicle is upon us, and Kentucky’s electric cooperatives are gearing up so their local consumer-members are ready to take the wheel. To help explain the advantages of driving an EV, several teams of…
Teaching the future Kids are our future,” says Justin Weaver. “The more you teach them and work with them, the better adults they will make when they get older.” Justin is a father of two—Bennett, 9, and Ansleigh, 5. He doesn’t just believe what he…
TRENTON, Tenn. — Gibson Electric Membership Corporation hosted a large crowd of members and friends at its 83rdAnnual Members' Meeting on March 21 at Crockett County High School in Alamo, Tennessee. [caption id="attachment_5625" align="alignleft" width="264"] • The Kurt Stephenson Band provided lively entertainment at the…
[caption id="attachment_5617" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] David Pace, a Meade County RECC employee who works as Meade County-Brandenburg Economic Development chairman, speaks at a press conference announcing that Nucor plans to build a $1.35 billion steel plate manufacturing mill in Brandenburg.[/caption] BRANDENBURG - The announcement that America’s…
As of March 15, 2019 [gallery type="slideshow" ids="5601,5602,5600,5599,5598,5597,5596,5595,5594"] Jackson Purchase Energy Jackson Purchase Energy has restored service to more than 5300 consumer-members after at least one tornado touched down Thursday morning. Currently, we have around 3900 consumer-members without power. In addition to JPEC’s own crews,…
Jackson Purchase Energy is responding to 60 outages affecting more than 7,000 consumer members after at least one tornado touched down on Thursday morning. Because multiple utility poles have been downed by the storms, please prepare for extended outages. We are continuing to assess damage…
Do you think it’s worth making the switch from a gas mower to an electric mower?—Eric Until recently, corded and cordless electric mowers tended to be underpowered, with sub-par battery life for cordless models. But today, those problems are largely solved and the best electric…
