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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
New Orleans, La., June 19, 2018 —Merl Page, city manager for the City of Wamego, Kansas, received the Larry Hobart Seven Hats Award at the American Public Power Association’s national conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. This award recognizes managers of small utilities serving fewer than 2,500 meters. These managers have a very small staff and […]
Southern Star had an explosion earlier this morning on their pipeline. Scott Robertson, Hesston’s Utility Superintendent, said he was 2.5 miles from the explosion and it shook his truck. http://www.kwch.com/content/news/Crews-respond-to-possible-pipeline-fire-near-Hesston–485657431.html Needless to say, KMGA is getting supply cut due to this event.
It appears that the government is preparing a plan to bailout coal and nuclear power plants at risk of closure. I won’t bore you with the details (you can read them by clicking on the link) but it is somewhat scary thinking about what could happen to the wholesale power markets if this happens. The […]
KMU is offering a Distributed Generation (DG) Toolkit Workshop on June 27th. Click Here to Register
KMGA continues with the effort of creating a state-wide Operator Qualification (OQ) program that can be adopted by all 53 municipals across Kansas who own their natural gas distribution system. Every operator of a natural gas system is required by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to have an OQ program. The Kansas […]
