GREAT BEND TRIBUNE Wheatland Electric awards $1,000 Sharing Success Grant to Barton County Emergency Aid Nancy Sundahl, left, Barton County Emergency Aid Board president, accepts a $1,000 Sharing Success grant from Regan Reif, member services and key accounts manager at Wheatland Electric.
Wheatland Electric Cooperative Inc. announced Friday that its Sharing Success Fund, managed by the Scott Community Foundation, has awarded a $1,000 grant to Barton County Emergency Aid.
Established by the Barton County Association of Churches, Barton County Emergency Aid (EA) seeks to assist people with rent and utilities. The organization also provides funds to Volunteers in Action to assist with travel expenses for necessary medical appointments. In addition, EA assists people who are homeless and provides support to transients. By utilizing EA, individuals can receive aid and support from one location instead of going to multiple churches individuall
GREAT BEND TRIBUNE Wheatland trustees votes to spread additional costs over 12 months
SCOTT CITY – The Wheatland Electric Cooperative Inc. Board of Trustees voted on Tuesday to spread any additional costs from the recent unprecedented winter weather event evenly over a 12-month time period.
Wheatland’s CEO/General Manager Bruce W. Mueller said the utility would like to ensure members that they will continue to do everything possible to mitigate the impact that this March bill has on members. Unfortunately, at this time, the full impact is not known and will not be known until the power bill is received from Sunflower Electric Power Corporation, their generation and transmission provider.
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OVERLAND PARK, KS The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink.
The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extreme weather events can make such outages dramatically worse.
Customers in Kansas state experienced 4.00 hours without power in 2019 0.70 fewer hours than the national average of 4.7 hours in 2019, which is the most recent information available, according to the EIA.
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WICHITA, KS The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink.
The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extreme weather events can make such outages dramatically worse.
Customers in Kansas state experienced 4.00 hours without power in 2019 0.70 fewer hours than the national average of 4.7 hours in 2019, which is the most recent information available, according to the EIA.
Wheatland Electric Cooperative Inc. would like to extend a sincere “thank you” to our members for their efforts in conserving energy during the unprecedented, region-wide energy crisis.