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P.O. Box 751 Seminole, Okla. 74818 Serving Hughes, Lincoln, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Pottawatomie, Seminole and portions of Oklahoma, Cleveland and Creek counties
ELECTRALITE By George cont.
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— Matt Goodson, Tecumseh ......................District 5 Vice President — Robert Schoenecke, Meeker .........District 2 Secretary-Tres.—Steve Marak, Meeker ....................District 1 Asst. Sec/Treas. — Joe Semtner, Konawa ................District 6 Yates Adcock, Dustin ..............................................District 8 Gary Crain, Prague.....................................................District 3 Clayton Eads, Shawnee .............................................District 4 J.P, Duvall, Seminole .................................................District 7 George E Hand
.....................................................Manager J. Roger Henson
....................................................Attorney Ann Weaver ...........................................................Editor
Telephone Numbers
Seminole .........................................................(405) 382-3680 Shawnee, Tecumseh, Earlsboro ......................(405) 273-4680 Toll free.............................................................(877)382-3680 Eufaula ........................................................... (918) 689-3232
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Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Cycle 3
26th-31st 6th-11th 16th-21st
Billing date 5th
1-1/2% penalty
15th is applied 20 25th after billing date
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.
Operating Statistics for July 2010
Operating Revenues .......................... $5,591,545 Wholesale Cost of Power .................. $3,839,726 Percentage WPC is of Revenue .................. 68.67
2011
$6,234,953 $4,436,671 71.16
Revenue Per Mi of Line: MTD ............... $1,086.79 $1,206.92 Consumers per mile of line:MTD ..................4.56 KWPeak Demand -This Month ................145,392 Billing KW Demand ..................................115,005 KW Peak Demand: YTD .......................... 158,984
4.57
159,826 110,748 162,960
KWH Purchased - This Month .............71,375,110 82,624,690 Taxes Paid ............................................... $106,227 Interest on Long Term Debt ................... $190,128 System Load Factor ...................................... 66.0
New Services Staked in August During the month of August 35 new services were staked.
The total new services staked in 2011 is 324. This compares to 305 for the same period in 2010.
$123,779 $190,732 69.5
record snowfall, record low temperatures and record high tem- peratures, our biggest fears, ice storms and tornados bypassed the Canadian Valley electric systems this past year. This year the most poles lost were due to wildfires. Those numbers have not approached the damage to the electric system that an ice storm or long run tornado can do. This year damage to the electric system has been comparatively less than recent years. We felt like we were due a break, but then that is something we don’t control. We are grateful.
The cold winter and record breaking hot summer brought with those temperature extremes, new records for the consumption of electricity not only in the Canadian Valley Electric distribution area, but throughout the state and region. These higher energy usage lev- els brought higher electric bills to most this year. These new higher bench marks for electric energy consumption keep us mindful that the future will require additional generating plants to meet the elec- tric energy needs of a hopefully rebounding economy. Today there is much uncertainty about how our future needs for electric energy will be met. (I was recently told that we are ship- ping our coal to China for their power plants.) While coal is our most abundant and lowest cost resource today, the future regulatory uncertainty makes the risks too high for utilities and investors to commit billions of dollars to that option for future electric genera- tion needs.
In the past few years three planned new coal-fired generating plants in Oklahoma alone have been cancelled due to this uncer- tainty. Our leaders today are concerned that we are putting too much “exhaust” into the air. When it comes to the battle between our cars and our electric generating plants, the cars are going to win. Today we are seeing mandated additional and more stringent emission requirements being placed on existing coal fired generating plants. The equipment cost of meeting these new emissions regula- tions will approach the original cost of the generating plants with no additional electric energy output. This can only mean that the same kilowatt-hours will cost significantly more. The big concern and risk is that these additional expenditures on existing generating plants will not address the Carbon dioxide issue. The threat of addi- tional CO2 regulation or taxes may be an additional burden on every electric bill. Natural gas fired electric generation plants emit only about ½ half of the Carbon dioxide that a coal plant puts into the air. That is still a lot of CO2 and we still have to build the new generat- ing plants. In the 1970’s the government said shut down natural gas generators and build coal plants. The electric utilities did. Now the regulators are saying no to coal plants and are making existing coal-fired generating plants more expensive to run. The consumer always pays. There is no one else.
Maintaining the lifestyle we the masses have come to expect in this country will require innovation on both ends of the supply and demand equation for electric energy. Especially in the near term we cannot expect technology alone to save us. Wise, efficient, conservative use of energy will need to be the tools the average consumer has in maintaining an electric bill they can afford to pay. Poles, wires and transformers are expensive. However they are only about one-fourth of today’s electric bill. As the rules become more stringent these items will become a smaller percentage of the monthly bill.
Using less and getting the most out of each kWh will likely be the average consumer’s only means of fighting back to control rising electric bills. As consumers we must recognize and embrace this type of stewardship as a wise choice.
The ElectraLite
OCTOBER 2011
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