Chris L. Bennett has been named Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative’s (SIEC) next Executive Vice President/General Manager by the Board of Directors. He will assume the responsibilities of this position effective July 12. Bennett has worked in the electric cooperative business...
Prairie State Generating Company celebrated its inaugural meeting May 2 at the Lively Grove energy campus that includes a state of the art 1,600-megawatt generating facility and coal mine. The facility is owned by nine member owners, including Southern Illinois...
The Underground Residential Distribution course is currently being offered at the Lincoln Land Community College AIEC Hot Line School Grounds. It is a one-week course. Advanced URD component beginning on May 20 includes a URD locator course and trenching and...
Illinois Rural Electric Cooperative held a ground breaking for its 500 kilowatt solar facility which is being built south of Winchester on Illinois Highway 106, next to one of the substations that serves the cooperative’s 7,800 members. The complete solar...
Two electric cooperatives in northwest Illinois have merged to serve a combined 21,372 electric members. Elizabeth, Ill.-based Jo-Carroll Energy and Geneseo, Ill.-based Farmers Mutual Electric—the state's oldest electric cooperative—completed the merger on March 31. The integrated cooperative will operate as...
