Entries by KMEA

Employment Opportunity

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The City of Troy, a full service City including electric, water and wastewater utilities and street maintenance, is accepting applications for the position of  Working Supervisor Management and supervisor skills required.   This is a hand’s on position.  Applicant must have a valid CDL Kansas driver’s license, physical, drug test, other requirements as to job will […]

Employment Opportunity

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Electrical Superintendent The City of Eudora, population 6300, seeks responsible applicants to perform difficult skilled technical work supervising the construction, maintenance and repair of electric transmission and distribution lines and related installations, responding to emergency or after hour requests, and related work as apparent or assigned. Associates/Technical degree and extensive experience working with electrical distribution […]

Employment Opportunity

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Electric Lineman Eudora, KS, population 6,300, seeks responsible applicants to perform skilled work of journeyman level in the construction, maintenance and repair of overhead and underground 12.5KV electric distribution power lines, protection equipment, metering, and other electrical equipment. A high school diploma/GED is required, and the completion of an Associates/Technical degree with considerable experience in […]

Strategic Planning Effort Underway

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Paul Mahlberg, General Manager “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” One of the many quotes of our nation’s 34th President, Dwight D. Eisenhower. I couldn’t agree more with this philosophical statement. Strategic planning is absolutely necessary for our agencies, especially in the quickly, ever changing world we live in with our electric and gas […]

More To Come

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I get concerned when I hear of the retirement of a coal fired power plant. There has been approximately 600 MW of coal resources retired in 2018 alone. I know that there are plenty of generating resources on the grid to handle things now but what about the future. It wasn’t that long ago when […]

Awareness Campaign

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About 49 million people in 49 states and five territories across the U.S. are public power customers. However, our research has shown that the majority of those 49 million people don’t even realize their utility is community-owned. We need to make them aware of this fact and explain why this matters. And we can do […]

Winter Gas Prices Responding to Low Storage Levels

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Weekly storage injection volumes reported this summer have been below the 5 year average.  Current storage level is at 2,435 Bcf, about 25% below the five-year average.  Storage levels are projected to be below 3,300 Bcf at the end of the injection season on October 31st.  According to data from the EIA, this would be […]