News Releases

Bullhead City, AZ – Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) has been serving members for 76 years strong, and unlike most items over time, the cost of MEC’s electricity has stayed relatively the same since inception. Unlike investor-owned utilities who provide profits to shareholders, a utility operating under the cooperative model is a not-for-profit entity structured to […]

Bullhead City, AZ – On Saturday, March 11, at 12:52 a.m. a vehicle struck the guy wire which assists with holding the electric pole, causing an outage that affected 41 Mohave Electric Cooperative members. The outage occurred in the Fort Mohave area. Crews made the repairs and restored power to all members by 3:29 a.m. […]

Bullhead City, AZ – The evening of December 13, 2022 was an exciting night for 4 local eleventh grade students. The students, whose parents, or guardians are MEC members, were selected to represent Mohave Electric Cooperative in the annual Washington Youth Tour. The week-long excursion allows the students to interact with others from all over […]

BULLHEAD CITY, AZ – At 6:37 p.m. Sunday, December 11, Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) members in the eastern service area lost power due to an extreme snowstorm. The heavy snowfall and wind broke a crossarm on MEC’s 69KV sub-transmission line to the Nelson Substation. This outage affected 483 members in the Peach Springs, Grand Canyon Caverns, […]

Bullhead City, AZ – The mechanical failure of an insulator just before 8 a.m. Friday, December 9, resulted in 10,926 Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) members losing power for about an hour in Bullhead City, Fort Mohave and Mohave Valley. “This is not a common occurrence,” said Jerry Hardy, MEC Manager of Engineering and Operations. “We […]

BULLHEAD CITY, AZ – On Wednesday, November 16 at 6:04am, 2,462 Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) members in Bullhead City, near Silver Creek, lost power for approximately forty minutes. High winds continue to be a nuisance to MEC’s service area. This time, the wind blew an energized piece of equipment into another piece of equipment causing damage […]

BULLHEAD CITY, AZ – An electrical fault in the underground feeder line in the Big Bend area caused an extended outage for over 2,300 members Monday, September 26. The fault happened at 7:10 p.m. and caused a circuit breaker to lock open, affecting 2,305 members in the area from Riverview Drive south to Palo Verde […]

Bullhead City, AZ – Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) held its annual meeting Thursday, September 15 at the Anderson Auto Group Fieldhouse for hundreds of the cooperative’s members. The annual event, as mandated by the cooperative’s policies and procedures, was used to discuss several items from the past year as well as looking forward to the […]

BULLHEAD CITY, AZ – MEC is extremely happy that all our residential and business members have power restored after the catastrophic weather event our community experienced. All residential members’ power was officially restored at 11:14am on 9/9/22 and the final business members’ power was restored at 4:44 pm on 9/10/22. We have evaluated the system […]

Bullhead city, AZ – At 2 p.m. on Thursday, September 8, 2022, only 38 residential members were without power, with all residential members’ power anticipated to be restored by midnight, September 8, 2022. Sunday’s devastating storm left more than 36,000 residents (82% of members) without power for 20 hours or more. On Monday afternoon, 8,000 […]