Pictured top row, left to right: Doug Miller The Community Foundation of Ohio's Electric Cooperatives; Kent Eldridge, Buckeye REC; Alan Amos, President, Ohio Line Supervisors Association; Brandon Hale, Blake's stepfather; Bottom row: Krista Smith, Buckeye REC; Brandie Hale, Blake's mom; Derek Brown, Scioto County Technical Career Center.

Lucasville, OH—The Ohio Line Supervisors Association presented a check for $16,304.81 to Scioto County Career Technical Center Monday, November 20, to continue its s

Reliability of electricity at risk

You flip a switch in your home, and light fills a dark room.   You plug in your cell phone, and it’s charged in an hour.   You fill a refrigerator with food, and it’s cold or frozen in minutes.

Electricity transmission lines

Columbus, OH—Last Christmas, Ohio came within minutes of experiencing blackouts over the holiday due to electricity demand exceeding available power supply.

Ohio volunteered to work with NRECA International on a project in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to conduct training for technicians of mini-grid systems who have been asked to work with primary voltage systems (11kV Delta) for…

The Entry-Level Driver Training program is running strong and smooth with 10 of Ohio’s distribution cooperatives now actively participating.

Federated Insurance and NRECA have been working together with Pike Electric and the RESAP Area Administrators to bring virtual reality to cooperatives across the nation.

 

Our ST&LP instructors are currently on the road with the 4th quarter safety meetings. For this quarter, Jason Woods is focusing on UTV’s, skid steers, trenchers, and mini excavators.