Mid-West Electric Consumers Association

Mid-West Electric Consumers Association promotes and protects the interest of federal power customers and their consumer-owners within the Missouri River Basin.

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

Federal hydropower is a renewable reliable base load resource for over a million end use consumer-owners in the Missouri River Basin.

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

The Mid-West Board of Directors toured the Garrison Power Plant and USFWS Fish Hatchery today and met with plant operators and officials from the ⁦@OmahaUSACE⁩. It was great to talk about power customer funded projects and the value of hydropower to our 313 member utilities

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

Thank you Tom for your support and service to Mid-West!

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

Two of our incredible Wyoming Board Members meeting with ⁦@RepHageman⁩ staff on the importance of federal hydropower to consumer-owned utilities across the Upper Missouri River Basin.

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

Great (albeit windy) time to be in Washington this week talking the value of federal hydropower with members of the nine Upper Missouri Basin states (MN,IA,KS,NE,CO,SD,ND,WY,MT)

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

Thank you @SenJohnHoeven for your time and support of hydropower and consumer-owned utilities across the Missouri River Basin.

[Senator John Hoeven @SenJohnHoeven]

Visited with members of Mid-West Electric Consumers Association in D.C. this week to discuss maintaining access to affordable & reliable baseload power for consumers.

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

Thank you for your time and support @SenJohnThune!

[Leader John Thune @LeaderJohnThune]

Great to join members of @Mid_WestElec to discuss their work to protect energy resources for consumers within the Missouri River Basin and the importance of an all-of-the-above energy approach to ensure a reliable and resilient energy sector.

[MRES @MRESnews]

Matthew E. Schull has accepted the position of President & CEO for MRES, effective 5/12/23. Schull joined ElectriCities of North Carolina in 2003, serving as COO of ElectriCities since May 2016. He will replace President & CEO Tom Heller, who is retiring 6/30/23. Welcome, Matt!

[Northern Water @northern_water]

On this day in 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt signed legislation to rename the Colorado-Big Thompson Project's 13.1-mile tunnel under Rocky Mountain National Park after the late Senator Alva B. Adams, who died in 1941.

[Gale W. McGee @GaleWMcGee]

December 9, 1963
McGee spoke to the Midwest Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec in Denver, CO @ahcwyo #otd #TDIH

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

Mid-West consumer-owned utility members heard great messages from @SenJohnBarrasso and @SenAmyKlobuchar today at our 65th Annual Meeting. We appreciate the support of power customers and your engagement on federal hydropower issues.

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

Mid-West leaders hearing from ⁦@WesternAreaPowr⁩, ⁦@NRECANews⁩, ⁦@publicpowerorg⁩, ⁦@USGAO⁩, ⁦@NOAA⁩, ⁦@USACEHQ⁩, and others entities working on issues around federal hydropower. 18 sessions designed to help us understand our changing industry.

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

Congratulations to Jack Preston, our 2022 Simonton-Graves Honoree. The Simonton-Graves Award honors exceptional contributions to the preservation and promotion the federal hydropower program. Thank you for your service Jack!

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

So excited to welcome well over 300 consumer-owned utility leaders to Denver this week for the 65th Mid-West Electric Consumers Association Annual Meeting.

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

The Nebraska Villages of Paxton and Trenton were among 11 municipalities and one military base in Kansas and Nebraska that were approved to receive at-cost federal hydropower from WAPA’s Loveland Area Projects. https://t.co/iSwIKRccvk

[Pete Stauber @RepPeteStauber]

It was great to discuss the need for permitting reform, as well as the need for affordable and reliable energy, with @MNRuralElectric this morning while they are on Capitol Hill!

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

Thank you ⁦@RepFischbach⁩ for meeting with consumer-owned utilities on federal hydropower issues. We appreciate your support for cooperative and municipal utilities in CD 7. Looking forward to working with you to keep federal hydropower affordable and reliable.

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

Thank you to @RepPeteStauber and staff for meeting with consumer-owned utilities to talk about the importance of federal hydropower. We appreciate your support of @WesternAreaPowr customers.

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

Thank you to ⁦@RepAngieCraig⁩ staff for meeting with consumer-owned utilities on federal hydropower issues. We appreciate the support!

[Mid-West Electric Consumers Association @Mid_WestElec]

Thank you ⁦@SenTinaSmith⁩ for your support of ⁦@WesternAreaPowr⁩ customers in the Upper Great Plains. We appreciate you taking the time to meet with Minnesota consumer-owned utilities including @TCVFarmer⁩,⁦@jh0ran⁩ and ⁦@DarrickMoe⁩.