Your Missouri Electric Cooperatives are dedicated to bringing you, our Member-Owners, safe, reliable, and affordable electric power. One of our Seven Cooperative Principles is Education & Training, and we take that Principle to heart.Today on the blog, we’ve got...
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The National Electric Code (NEC) in Missouri
When it comes to electrical safety, the National Electrical Code — or NEC — is the nationally recognized standard. The 1,000-page document is published every three years, and it’s up to states or local jurisdictions whether to adopt the code and how to enforce...
When Is Missouri’s Electric Grid at Peak Use?
Missouri’s infamous weather can change drastically in a single day, so our Missouri Electric Cooperative Member-Owners know brutal heat waves and bitter cold equally well. Our weather may be unpredictable, but that doesn’t mean that your electricity...
Helping You Budget for High Electric Bills
Your Cooperative’s rates are the same all year long. Your electric use, on the other hand, fluctuates from one season to the next. Our experience has taught us that winter and summer are the two times of the year when our Member-Owners use the most power. That...
Energy Trails Project Lights Up Bolivia
In August 2016, six Missouri lineworkers joined six volunteers from Oklahoma on a 16-day electrification project in Amazonian Bolivia. The project, called Energy Trails, brought power to 361 rural Bolivian families, making their villages safer and improving their...
How Your Missouri Electric Cooperatives Use Base Load and Other Resources to Power Your Home
Have you ever wondered how your Missouri Electric Cooperative figures out how much power your family, your business — and the whole Cooperative — needs each day, month, or year, to live and work comfortably? And even more importantly, have you ever wondered how your...
Thank You Member-Owners from Missouri’s Electric Cooperatives
Missouri’s Electric Cooperatives want to thank you, our Member-Owners, for your continued involvement and personal investment in your rural Electric Cooperatives. For each day we work to bring reliable, safe, and affordable power to rural Missouri, you’re...
Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative Brings First Community Solar Array to Missouri
Missouri’s Electric Cooperatives serve rural areas across the state, but that doesn’t mean that your Cooperatives lag in technology or renewable energy generation. In fact, Cooperatives like Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative (PCEC) lead the way in green power in...
What’s a Cooperative, Really?
Maybe you’ve been a Member-Owner of a Cooperative for a long time, or maybe you’re brand new to your local Cooperative. No matter how long you’ve gotten your power from your Missouri Electric Cooperative, we’re willing to bet there are a few things you still don’t...
Help Keep Missouri Electric Cooperatives’ Rates Reasonable When Disaster Strikes
Missouri is no stranger to natural disasters. From flash floods and ice storms to tornadoes, we’ve suffered 30 declared natural disasters since 2000. When disaster strikes, your Missouri Electric Cooperatives rely on help — and funding — from the Federal Emergency...
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