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12/17/2009
Central Electric Pays $1 Million in Capital Credits
Central Electric Cooperative President and Chief Executive Officer Dave Markham announced today that current and former members are eligible to receive capital credits payments totaling $1,042,670. CEC will begin mailing checks this week.
12/11/2009
Cold Snap Forces CEC to Postpone Construction Outage in Sisters
The threat of inclement weather next week prompted Central Electric Cooperative
(CEC) to postpone two planned outages until early 2010. These planned outages
would have affected 103 accounts in the Five Pines area and the south part of
Sisters.
11/6/2009
Tollgate Substation Upgrade Nearing Completion
Central Electric Cooperative announced plans today to switch electric supplies from the old Tollgate Substation to the new one
with two separate operations that require brief outages for different areas around the town of Sisters. The first will start late
Monday night, November 16th and conclude early Tuesday morning, November 17th.
7/30/2009
Video: KTVZ Newschannel 21 at Eleven
New CEC Safety Trailer makes flashy debut at the Deschutes County Fair.
4/3/2009
CEC Repairing Car-Pole Power Outage in
Sisters
CEC crews are working at this time to restore power to approximately 3,000
customers still without power in the Sisters area after a car crashed into one
of the co-op’s transmission poles on U.S. Hwy. 126 between Sisters and Redmond.
CEC’s goal is to have power restored by 1:00 p.m. today.
12/12/2008
Central Electric Pays Record $1.5 Million
in Capital Credits
CEC President, Dave Markham, announced today that current and former members are
eligible this year to receive capital credits payments totaling $1,516,967. CEC
will begin mailing checks this week.
12/12/2008
Video: Central
Electric Coop Record Refunds
KOHD News at 6:00 interview with Alan Guggenheim.
9/18/2008
CEC Advises Eagle Ridge Residents to Plan for Outage Tonight
Central Electric Cooperative will cut power to 1,428 businesses and residents in the Eagle Ridge area west of Cline Falls Highway at 10 p.m.,
tonight (Thursday, Sept. 18), so that line crews can safely convert the substation serving that area to 115,000 volts.
9/16/2008
Video: Six Hour Power Outage
KOHD News at Daybreak interview with Alan Guggenheim.
9/16/2008
CEC Plans Six-hour Power Outage in Sisters Tonight and Eagle Ridge Thursday
Central Electric Cooperative will cut power at 10 p.m., tonight, to 3,094 Sisters area residents so
that line crews can safely convert a substation from 69,000 volts to 115,000 volts.
9/8/2008
CEC Advises Sisters Residents to Prepare for 6 Hour Planned Outage
Sisters area businesses and residents whose power will be cut by CEC next week
may want to do some advance planning.
9/8/2008
CEC
Advises Eagle Ridge Residents to Prepare for 6 Hour Planned Outage
Eagle Ridge businesses and residents whose power will be cut by CEC next week may want to
do some advance planning.
9/3/2008
Video: CEC to Convert to 115,000
Volt Transmission to Sisters
KOHD News at 6:00 interview with Alan Guggenheim.
8/29/2008
CEC To Convert to 115,000 Volt Transmission To Sisters
Central Electric Cooperative announced plans today to convert to 115,000 volt
electric transmission into the Sisters area west of Redmond.
12/7/2007
Capital Credits Payments
Central Electric Cooperative announced today that CEC
will retire a total of $661,563 in capital credits. Checks will be mailed this
week to current and former members eligible to receive capital credits
payments.
9/10/2007
CEC Names New Member Services Director
Alan Guggenheim has been named as the new Member Services Director for Central
Electric Cooperative, according to Dave Markham, president of the Redmond based
utility.
4/9/2007
CEC Receives National
Recognition
Central Electric's Green Power program again ranks in the nation’s “Top Ten” for
member participation, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
4/2/2007
Vandalism-Caused Outage
About 600 Central Electric Cooperative members were without electric service
for approximately 90 minutes Monday afternoon because of gunshot vandalism
to CEC’s main transmission line between Bend and Alfalfa.
3/19/2007
CEC New Board Chairman
David Clemens, longtime Sisters-area homebuilder, has been elected chairman of the Central Electric Board of Directors.
12/11/2006
CEC Capital Credits Payments to Exceed $584,000
More than 18,000 current and former members of Central Electric Cooperative
are eligible to receive capital credits payments totaling more than $584,000
beginning this week.
5/18/2006
CEC Offers Reward for
Vandalism Information
Central Electric Cooperative said today it would pay a cash reward of up to
$2,500 for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for
vandalism of equipment.