This year’s program featured: • Lt. Governor Jeff Colyer, • Speaker of the House Ron Ryckman, • Chairman of the House Taxation Committee Steven Johnson, and • Chairman of the House Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications Committee Joe Seiwert. Members and Staff had the opportunity to meet with legislators over lunch and joined KMU for a legislative […]
Staff attended a retirement reception for John Sweet on January 17th. John has been the City Administrator at the City of Lyons since January 2002 and plans to retire March 30th. Throughout the years, John has been a strong advocate for the City of Lyons, the State of Kansas and KMEA/KMGA member cities. John will now […]
LOUISBURG — For the first time in Miami County history, two Louisburg businesses have been named as recipients of a Kansas City metro area business award. Thinking Bigger Business Media recently announced that Thirsty Coconut and Meridian Business Services, both located in Louisburg, were among the winners of the 17th annual “25 Under 25” awards. […]
Amid freezing temperatures, natural gas daily index prices have surged over the past several trading periods. Since Dec 25th, Southern Star daily index price has risen $4.12/MMBtu, posting at $6.475/MMBtu for today, Jan 3rd. Enable daily index pricing for the same time period jumped $5.00/MMBtu, posting at $7.575/MMBtu for today. On Monday, the U.S. burned […]
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C. Diann Burress 1946-2017 Platte City, Missouri- Cheryl “Diann” Burress, 71, Platte City, Missouri passed away on December 13, 2017. Diann was born September 1, 1946 in Gallatin, Missouri to Sid and Delores (Smith) McFee. She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Maxine McFee-Shultz and brother, Leo Don McFee. Diann joined KMEA at […]
Kansas Municipal Energy Agency was formed under Kansas Law back in 1980. The Agency was authorized by state statute, to plan, finance and construct projects for the purchase, sale, generation and transmission of electricity for the purpose of securing an adequate, economical and reliable supply of electricity and other energy for its members. Two such […]
The natural gas market appears hesitant to react to forecasted temperatures well-below-average for the eastern half of the U.S. through the middle of December. Overall US demand levels for December are projected to average 94.1 Bcf/day, exceeded only by December 2013 ahead of the polar vortex winter and December 2016 when NYMEX prices were […]
On December 6, 2017, municipal gas utilities met in Humbolt to discuss pooling of resources to better meet Operator Qualification (OQ) training and certification. The meeting was facilitated by Dixie Riedel, Gas Director for KMGA and was hosted by the City of Humbolt. This meeting was held for cities in the Eastern part of the […]
