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Guy Wire Makes Contact with Primary Line, Causing Outage
Bullhead City, AZ – On Thursday, June 1, at 2:06 a.m. a guy wire, which assists with holding the electric pole, made contact with the primary phase causing the circuit breaker to lock open. The reason why the guy wire…
MEC Awards $5,000 MEC Grant in Support of Continuing Education
Bullhead City, AZ – Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) is proud to announce one winner for the MEC 2023 Scholarship Program. Students in MEC’s service territory attending a higher education institution this fall semester were eligible to apply for assistance up…
Classroom Grant Winners Announced
Bullhead City, AZ – Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) awarded eighteen $200 classroom grants to educators for financial assistance in making classroom learning more engaging. Forty-one applications were received for the eighteen available grants. A team at MEC evaluated the projects…
Mehdi Azarmi Wins 2023 Distinguished Service Award
Bullhead City, AZ – On May 10, 2023, Mehdi Azarmi, a longtime resident in Mohave Electric Cooperative’s service area accepted the 2023 Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (AEPCO) Distinguished Service Award. AEPCO’s Distinguished Service Awards recognize the outstanding efforts of individuals…
Vehicle Collision with Power Pole Causes Outage
Bullhead City, AZ – On Friday, May 12 at 12:33 p.m. a vehicle crashed into a power pole off the 95 Highway and Merrill Avenue in the Bullhead City area causing an outage for 664 Mohave Electric members. MEC crews…
MEC Staff/Linemen Receive Recognition
Bullhead City, AZ – The work of the Mohave Electric Cooperative staff, and most notably the linemen, was recognized with several certificates and proclamations recently during the MEC Employee Appreciation Day. Wednesday, April 26, Bullhead City Mayor Steve D’Amico; City…
Reaching New Heights at MEC
Drone program helps protect infrastructure and improve reliability Mohave Electric Cooperative has a new tool in its toolshed to help keep members’ costs low – an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), aka Drone. The new drone program is the next step…
We Want Your Feedback
Welcome to the May edition of Currents magazine. We have a lot going on at MEC (Mohave Electric Cooperative) and we are looking for input from our members. This is your magazine and we need your thoughts. Mohave Electric is…
Why Aren’t All Power Lines Underground?
The massive storm that rolled through Bullhead City over the Labor Day holiday weekend knocked over or damaged more than 140 poles in MEC’s service territory and prompted many members to ask about burying the electrical lines rather than running…
Mohave Electric Public Affairs Wins 2 Awards
The Mohave Electric Cooperative Public Affairs department recently won 2 Spotlight on Excellence Awards in a national competition conducted by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). NRECA is a national association of more than 800 Electric Cooperatives around the…