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April 25, 2024

As a member of the electric cooperative family, you know the vital role electric co-ops play in ensuring always-available access to reliable, affordable power. We need your help: Stand up to federal regulators who want to shut down dependable power sources. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that U.S. power demand will reach its highest levels in 2024 and 2025. Despite this, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward with regulations that threaten to close always-available power plants and make it harder to build new ones. With a growing reliance on electricity to power our economy and everyday lives,...

April 18, 2024



April 10, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy revised its rule on electricity distribution transformers this week, which will ease supply chain challenges and ultimately support electricity reliability and grid resilience. U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) pushed for the change after speaking with Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives president and CEO, Pat O’Loughlin. Brown stated this week the DOE rule change will protect domestic production of transformers and preserve Ohio jobs. The Department of Energy had proposed a rule that would have required all electrical distribution transformers to shift from the industry standard grain oriented electrical steel (GOES) cores to amorphous cores. This...

April 10, 2024

COLUMBUS, OH-April is the month of the year we celebrate our appreciation of electric lineworkers. Electric cooperatives recognize April 8, as lineworker appreciation day. April 18 is slated as national lineworker appreciation day. Lineworkers are essential to keeping power and light on in our communities all year long, so why not show your support year round by displaying Ohio’s Fallen Lineworkers license plate? A newly designed Ohio license plate is available for drivers to purchase for $20 when they’re registering or renewing a vehicle in Ohio. Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives designed the new plate for the state last year. For each...

April 4, 2024

Pioneer Electric Cooperative is taking proactive measures to ensure readiness for the upcoming Solar Eclipse on April 8. Your cooperative is doing its best to prepare for the unexpected — and the Solar Eclipse on April 8 is no exception. Understanding the potential for unexpected events, Pioneer Electric Cooperative is strategically placing crews across its service territory to address any outages that may arise during the celestial event. Please know that depending on a variety of factors, including cellular service availability and traffic congestion in specific areas, outage response times could be longer than usual. Pioneer assures its members that...

March 26, 2024