COLT is running full steam ahead with apprentice and journeyman refresher classes, and even facilitated its first underground locating workshop with positive results and reviews and saving our member systems from high…

Please see below for a list of scheduled trainings offered by OEC's Safety Training and Loss Prevention department in May, June, and July 2023. 

COLT Schedule:

May

Having had three years to recover from the crazy experience of having our 2020 team trapped in Guatemala, we are back on track, hoping to execute our fourth Project Ohio mission early 2024.

Fastenal and PPEC Partnership to distribute PPE

This issue’s cooperative highlight features Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative.  

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Twenty-four high school seniors, all children of members of electric cooperatives in Ohio, competed for $49,000 in scholarships on April 12, 2023, at Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives (OEC) in Columbus, Ohio…

Representatives during a session at NRECA's Legislative Conference
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Representatives meeting with an elected official
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Representatives during their private tour of the U.S. Capitol Building with Rep. Bob Latta
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Representatives during their private tour of the U.S. Capitol Building with Rep. Bob Latta
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Representatives meeting with an elected official
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Representatives meeting with an elected official
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Representatives meeting with an elected official
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Representatives meeting with an elected official

In April, 65 employees and board members representing 21 of Ohio's Electric Cooperatives attended NRECA's 2023 Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C.

Photo from Carroll Electric Cooperative
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Photo from Carroll Electric Cooperative
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Uprooted tree during restoration efforts
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Broken tree
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Photo from Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative
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Photo from Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative
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Photo from South Central Power Company
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Photo from URE
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Photo from Washington Electric Cooperative
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Hancock-Wood Crews
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Midwest Electric
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Uprooted tree

For two weekends in a row, Ohio and surrounding states were hit with high winds and storms during the weekends of March 24 and March 31.