Page 2 C A N A D I A N P.O. Box 751 Seminole, Okla.
Serving Hughes, Lincoln, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Pottawatomie, Seminole and portions of Oklahoma, Cleveland and Creek counties
Main Office and Headquarters Interstate 40 at the Prague/Seminole Exit
Area Office
35 W. JC Watts Street, Eufaula Office Hours
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday - Friday Board of Trustees
President - Yates Adcock, Dustin .................... Vice President - Joe Semtner, Konawa ........... Sec.-Treas. - Robert Schoenecke, Meeker ..... Asst. Sec/Treas. - Steve Marak, Meeker ......... Gary Crain, Prague........................................... Clayton Eads, Shawnee .................................. Matt Goodson, Tecumseh ................................ J.P. Duvall, Seminole ....................................... George E. Hand .............................................. J. Roger Henson .............................................
Telephone Numbers
Seminole Shawnee, Tecumseh, Earlsboro Eufaula Toll-free
(405) 382-3680 (405) 273-4680 (918) 689-3232 (877) 382-3680
In Case of Trouble
1. Check for blown fuse or tripped circuit breakers. 2. Check with your neighbors. Ask if their electricity is off and if they have reported it.
3. If not call the office and report the trouble. Read
Billing date
Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Cycle 3
26th-31st 6th-11th 16th-21st
5th 15th 25th
1-1/2% penalty is applied 20 days after billing date
Operating Statistics for February 2012
2013
Operating Revenues Wholesale Cost of Power Percentage WPC is of Revenue Revenue per Mile of Line Consumers per Mile of Line KW Peak Demand - This month Billing kW demand KW Peak Demand - YTD KWh Purchased - This month Taxes Paid
Interest on Long Term Debt System Load Factor
$4,398,961 $3,455,597 78.55
$849.88 4.58
146,746 115,112 146,746 65,948,273 $98,123 $178,088 64.6
$4,248,207 $3,518,617 82.82
$818.38 4.59
142,252 109,236 146,172 64,470,230 $97,835 $162,420 67.4
New Services Staked in March During the month of March 37 new services were staked. The total new services staked in 2013 is 85. This compares to 102 for the same period in 2012.
District 8 District 6 District 2 District 1 District 3 District 4 District 5 District 7 Manager Attorney
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added to keep up with these regulatory requirements. WFEC has gone through five audits since NERC became a regula- tory body.
More mandates from the Environmental Protection Agency on air emissions, water quality and coal ash stor- age and handling threaten to significantly increase the cost of producing electricity. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Particulate Matter (PM) and Cross State Air Pollu- tion regulations (CSAPR) required WFEC to add low nitrous oxide (NOx) burners to natural gas plants in order to reduce NOx generation fleet emissions to regulatory levels. The cost of those additions added over $1 million in increased principal and interest costs. Mercury controls at the coal plant require an additional $5 million in capital, and an annu- al $1-$2 million to the annual cost of operation by 2014. EPA also marches ahead on regulating carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act. EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rule was effective for utilities in 2011 and requires them to report and moni- tor carbon emissions before and after projects to determine whether significant increases in emissions are probable. The EPA has proposed a carbon emissions standard which forces a roughly 50 percent reduction in CO2 emissions on new coal plants. The rule could impact existing coal-fired plants if they undergo significant modification or the EPA decides to make the rule retroactive. There is no current technology to meet this standard on existing plants or on new pulverized coal units.
Until the last half decade, electric bills were primarily made up of fuel, overhead and maintenance of transmis- sion and distribution wires and substations, and capital costs of generation. Regulatory cost increases are expected to escalate in the future. Natural gas prices have increased from the 2012 levels and will likely continue to increase if the economy recovers. Low natural gas prices in 2012 ($2.75 per mmbtu) are expected to rise to $3.70 per mmbtu by the end of 2013. As various coal and rail transportation con- tracts expire, we see increasing delivered coal prices. The United States has abundant coal reserves. One reason for this increasing cost is that the worldwide demand for U.S. coal is increasing. We like most electric cooperatives use a variety of fuels and technologies to produce electric power for our custom- ers. Some cost more than others. Coal, has historically been our lowest-cost fuel to meet the growing electrical demands of a growing economy. Now the risk of present and future regulations, have effectively taken our nation’s most abun- dant least price volatile energy resource off the table to meet the future requirements of a growing economy. These potential regulatory threats create just too great a capital risk for most electric utilities to consider building new coal fired plants.
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The ElectraLite
May 2013
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