Alaska Utilities #1
The first rural electric cooperative in Alaska
What is Matanuska Electric Association, Inc. (MEA)
The name of consumers of electricity from a cooperative
What are members (or meters)?
100% undergrounded electrical system
What is Cordova Electric Cooperative, Inc.
This entity's mission is to support, promote, and protect community and business interest of electric cooperatives
What is National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)?
I change the voltage from a generation level to a transmission level
What is a Generation Step-Up (GSU) Transformer?
Founded in 1893, the oldest regulated electric utility in Alaska, and holder of CPCN #1
Alaska Electric Light & Power (AELP)
Cooperation among cooperatives
What is one of the seven cooperative principles?
In 2024, this cooperative raised rates for the first time in 30 years
What is Kodiak Electric Association, Inc. (KEA)
Started work after college as a reporter for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
Who is Michael Rovito?
I typically sectionalize main distribution feeders
What is a switch cabinet?
Alaska cooperative that provides electricity, natural gas, potable water and wastewater treatment
Barrow Utilities and Electric Cooperative, Inc. (BUECI)
Allocated annually based on patronage
What are capital credits?
Alaska cooperative serving 58 communities, with only one accessible by road
Alaska Village Electric Cooperative, Inc. (AVEC)
Alaska regulation that requires economically regulated utilities to provide energy credits to members for excess renewable power sent back to the grid
What is net metering?
I'm a protective device that senses faults and gives commands
What is a Relay?
In the winter of 1989, this Alaska cooperative, whose service territory is roughly the size of West Virginia, experienced a record low of -72 degrees F
Copper Valley Electric Association, Inc. (CVEA)
This section of the Internal Revenue Code requires that at least 85% of income comes from members and is used for expenses and losses, with the goal of serving members at the lowest cost
What is 501(c)12?
This event happened at INN Electric Cooperative, Inc. on Valentines Day 1985
What is the date INN Electric Cooperative, Inc. received CPCN #280 from the Alaska Public Utilities Commission (APUC)?
The first port in the world to connect a cruise ship to shore power
What is the Port of Juneau?
I'm a wire that protects transmission lines from lightning strikes
What is a static wire? Also known as a shield wire or overhead ground wire
This cooperative purchased the first electric vehicle in Alaska
What is Golden Valley Electric Association, Inc. (GVEA)? A 1971 American Motors Corporation Hornet
The amount that Co-ops return to their consumer-members annually
What is more than 1 billion?
This cooperative began delivering industrial electricity service to the local seafood canneries in 1961
What is Naknek Electric Association, Inc. (NEA)
The two voltages the Alaska Intertie was designed to operate at versus what it actually operates at
What is 345kV versus 138kV
I'm a specialized device that tests the insulation level of cable
What is a Highpot?