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• New chairman expects to stay the course, promotes board skills

  In many ways, running a generation and transmission cooperative is a lot like operating a large grain farm. You study the marketplace, try to project what will be needed ... Read more >



• Cooperative.com updates a reminder to local co-ops

  If you haven’t logged into cooperative.com lately, when you do, you’ll notice a significant change. You’ll be asked to replace your familiar password with a different one ... Read more >



• Members of all ages online

  When someone mentions co-op members using online services, do you think of someone in his or her 20s and 30s? Read more >



• from the Saturation Survey

  54% of co-op members who use electricity to heat their home have resistance heat. Read more >



• July heat produces record power peaks, little wind

  Both the Midwest ISO and PJM Interconnection, the RTOs overseeing the transmission systems that include Wabash Valley’s service territory, reported that electricity use ... Read more >



• Annual budget process underway

  To most of us, 2012 may seem to be quite a long way away, but for Wabash Valley Controller Theresa Young and her team, it’s closing in very quickly. Read more >



• Efforts to build petcoke inventory continue

  The springtime floodwaters in Minnesota continue to have a ripple effect on the petcoke inventory at sgSolutions. Read more >



• from the Saturation Survey

  51% of co-op members use electricity to heat their water. Read more >



• New transformer returns Holland to full production

  In early February, the failure of a major 345 kv to 13.8 kv transformer at the Holland plant cut the facility’s generating capacity by roughly half ... Read more >



• NERC glossary terms of the month

  Each month, we’ll share some of the terminology used by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. You’ll see these terms in reports ... Read more >



• Bringing engineering expertise to 4-H

  Kosciusko REMC recently a hosted a workshop for local 4-H participants, and Wabash Valley Field Technologist Brian Maxey joined the co-op’s Field Engineer, Ryan Miller, in helping ... Read more >



• from the Saturation Survey

  49% of co-op members said they have two or more refrigerators at their residence; 68.5% say they have one or more free-standing freezers. Read more >



• Environmental group brands our part of the country “toxic”

  All five states served by Wabash Valley Power rank among America’s “toxic 20” because of power-plant emissions, claims the Natural Resources Defense Council ... Read more >



• Utilities to evaluate clearances following NERC directive

  Electric power utilities and others who operate transmission lines will be paying close attention to locations where their lines pass over or near co-op distribution lines. Read more >



• Board approves rider for C&I demand response program

  Many commercial and industrial accounts served by Wabash Valley member systems may soon participate in the demand response initiatives ... Read more >



• Consumption changes to play role in reliability

  A new report from Honeywell says that more than a fifth of the nation’s energy demand over the next decade will be met by consumers and other energy users ... Read more >



• Final transport rule may drive power costs up by as much as 30 percent

  In early July, the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of what the agency had been calling the Transport Rule. The agency gave the rule ... Read more >



• from the Saturation Survey

  88% of co-op members said they know what a CFL bulb is. Read more >



• Coal industry criticized for school-focused efforts

  A recent public radio report called attention to the working relationship between school material publisher Scholastic Inc. and the American Coal Foundation ... Read more >



• Northern Indiana to get another wind farm

  With the region’s reputation for grain farming, people have been accustomed to watching things sprout from northern Indiana’s farm fields. But in recent years ... Read more >



• from the Saturation Survey

  32.7% of co-ops members say they have ten or more CFLs in their home, up from 25.6% in 2009. Read more >



• Is the atmosphere a public trust?

  Just when you thought environmental rules couldn’t become more confusing, an organization is actively working to redefine the legal nature of the atmosphere. Read more >

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Wabash Valley Power Association exists to supply and deliver reliable wholesale power at a stable and competitive price to its member-owners and respond to their collective needs.