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Meet the Mascot: Willie Wiredhand

Meet the Mascot: Willie Wiredhand

Not many workers are still on the job when they turn 67, but Willie Wiredhand isn’t your ordinary employee. Willie is the long-time mascot of America’s rural Electric Cooperatives, and he’s been working hard for us since 1950. To celebrate Willie’s service, we’re...

Take Control & Save on Your Electricity Bill

As a Member-Owner of a Missouri Electric Cooperative, you have access to a collection of energy-savings advice that can help your home or business save energy and money. These tips and tools are part of Take Control & Save: a website operated by Associated...

Co-op Connections: Saving You Money Every Day

Your Missouri Electric Cooperative works hard to save you money. From energy efficiency tips to home energy audits; budget billing programs to capital credits, your Cooperative offers a wide variety of economic services to rural communities statewide.One of the many...

The Rural Electric Dictionary

Your Missouri Electric Cooperatives advocate every day for the state and national policies that will help us to provide you, our Member-Owners, with safe, reliable, and affordable electric power. What follows is a list of key terms and phrases that you might hear us...

What are Capital Credits?

What are Capital Credits?

Your Missouri Electric Cooperative’s first job is to provide you with reliable, safe, affordable electricity. As a nonprofit organization, though, we do more for you than just power your home, farm, or business affordably and reliably. When we’re able to...

Digital Devices Impact Energy Use

Digital Devices Impact Energy Use

By Tom TateAh, the Digital Age. We have gadgets galore, the ability to manage our homes in new and innovative ways, brilliant images and captivating sounds of modern entertainment options and of course, the internet. Clearly, digital devices reign supreme. Yet these...

A cooperative career

I’ve always believed that electric cooperatives are the best place in the world to work. Now, it would seem, is the best time ever to start a cooperative career.That’s because electric cooperatives nationwide are seeing an unprecedented turnover in their...

Missouri Rural Electricity: A Three-Tiered System

Missouri Rural Electricity: A Three-Tiered System

When you hit the light switch, your lights come on. When you push “start,” your microwave heats up your food. When you pull into your driveway at night, your security light comes on. Have you ever wondered, though, how that power gets to from the power...

What Do I Replace My 60 Watt Light Bulb With?

What Do I Replace My 60 Watt Light Bulb With?

If you’ve been shopping for light bulbs recently, you’ve probably noticed a shift in store displays and retailers’ selections. Traditional incandescent light bulbs used to line the shelves, but now there’s a wide range of energy efficient LED and CFL light bulbs for...

How Are Missouri State Property Taxes Assessed?

How Are Missouri State Property Taxes Assessed?

Property taxes provide critical funding for more than 250 local governments in Missouri. They provide revenue for local services like police, fire and rescue, street maintenance, senior citizen programs, schools, hospitals, parks and recreation, and emergency medical...

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