INDUSTRY NEWS It's getting hot in here
January 2013
NORMAN, Okla.— The National Weather Service expects above-normal temperatures for the Southwestern U.S. for the first quarter of 2013. Along with warm temperatures, drier-than-normal conditions should continue. Warmest conditions should be in S.E. New Mexico and West Texas. Winter temperatures
continue to follow the above average warming trend we have seen for the past
Chu to step
down, maybe NRECA, WASHINGTON, D.C.— Bloomberg News reported Jan. 18 rumors of Energy Sec. Steven Chu's intention to depart his Cabinet post. The announcement is expected in the coming weeks.
few years according to data collected by Oklahoma Electric Co-op (OEC). Current winter weather data for central Oklahoma shows temperatures 2.06 degrees above average. According to the
National Climatic Data Center (NOAA) 2012 was the warmest year on record. OEC charts Oct. through May in its winter data. Summer charts begin in June and correspond with the Time-of-Use rates.
Key decision on
Keystone XL NRECA, WASHINGTON, D.C.— According to the Jan. 18 Washington Times, whether or not the President approves the Keystone XL pipeline hinges on which is more important: creating
Something to write
home about NRECA/
ECT.COOP WADESBORO, N.C.— Rod Mabry, retired warehouse coordinator from Pee Dee Electric in Wadesboro, N.C. refuses to sit idly by in retirement while good equipment goes unused. Although originally
a lineman in the 1970s and 1980s, a near fatal car accident in 1985 left Mabry unable to climb poles. "If you get something
in your blood, [it's hard to let it go,]" said Mabry. "I'll always be a lineman at heart."
jobs and energy independence or fighting climate change. American Petroleum
Institute Senior Refining Manager Cindy Schild told the Toronto Globe and Mail, approving the
Rod Mabry's one-of- a-kind transformer- turned-mailbox.
Mabry located an
outdated transformer from a manufacture friend and with the help of a couple of friends, converted it into a mailbox. The letter carrier "loves it," said Mabry.
pipeline is a no brainer. It's good for consumers and in our national interest to secure strategic oil supplies from our upper plains states and Canada that could otherwise be shipped to Asia."
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Norman, Oklahoma
Electric Co-op Today photo taken by Steve Preslar
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