The Roundup for Safety Board awarded a total of $8,607 in community safety grants to nonprofit organizations at its May 12 meeting, including two grants supporting water safety for local kids. The Board considered a request from the Columbia Falls Swim Team for safety equipment. In introducing the grant application, Swim Team board member Jana […]
Flathead Electric Cooperative is pleased to announce its 2022 Scholarship Program recipients. A total of $117,000 – funded by unclaimed capital credits – was awarded to local students this year. Scholarship awards range in value from $1,500 to $6,000 each. Recipients must be attending an accredited college in Montana, and they or their parent or […]
The City of Libby and Flathead Electric Co-op will cut the ribbon for Libby’s new electric vehicle charging station on May 11 at 1 p.m. The public is invited to attend. The charging station is located on land owned by the City of Libby and leased to the Co-op. It is near the Libby Chamber […]
For the fourth year in a row, Flathead Electric Cooperative’s Board of Trustees announced a zero percent overall rate revenue increase for all rate classes. Trustees approved a revenue-neutral change to residential rates, effective June 1, 2022, where the basic charge remains the same, energy charges will decrease slightly, and the demand charge will increase […]
Flathead Electric Cooperative is marking Earth Day with an invitation to all members to join its paperless efforts. “In addition to reducing paper waste, going paperless is good for Co-op members’ wallets, as paperless choices saved the member-owned Co-op $293,500 in 2021. That helps to keep electricity bills as low as possible,” reflected Katie Pfennigs, […]
The Roundup for Safety Board awarded a total of $46,600 in community safety grants to nonprofit organizations at its April 14 meeting. The Board considered 11 projects, including a $4,500 request from the Kalispell Fire Department for new “stat packs,” or hygienic personal protective equipment bags for first responders and medics. Firefighter Luke Butler told […]
The Flathead Valley is filled with towering, beautiful trees that offer shade in the summer and warmth in the winter. Trees are also a big cause of power outages, despite Flathead Electric Cooperative’s year-round efforts to maintain its rights-of-way – that’s 10 feet on either side of the power lines. The Co-op’s Right of […]
Like most everything else in March 2020, Flathead Electric Co-op’s Annual Meeting was canceled. The following March, the Co-op held a socially distanced drive-in meeting in Glacier High School’s parking lot. This year, for the first time since 2019, the Cooperative’s members will again meet in person. Members number over 56,000 in the Flathead area […]
Emily Lockhart recently received the award for Best Energy Related Science Project at the 2022 Flathead County Science Fair. Lockhart’s project, titled “Zap That Wire,” also took home a Physical Sciences Grand Champion, Eighth Grade, award. Wanting to know which type of wire best conducted electrical current, Lockhart wired a light bar for a Jeep-type […]
The Roundup for Safety Board awarded a total of $21,375 in community safety grants to nonprofit organizations at its March 10 meeting. The Board considered five projects, including a request from Flathead Rivers Alliance for help with its loaner life jacket program on the Middle and North Forks of the Flathead River. This program is […]
