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Our legacy members

In his September 2017 column, CEO Ron Holcomb talks about two of Tipmont’s legacy members and what they mean to our cooperative.

Consider a cooperative career

The return of students to school each August signals a new beginning. For those of you are headed off to college or a trade school, you’re hopefully giving careful consideration to your future career. I encourage you to include electric cooperatives. Evolving technology is changing how energy is generated and distributed through the electric grid […]

History repeats itself

78 years after FDR created the REA to bring electricity to rural America, co-ops are once again poised to transform life for rural Americans.

Performance, rates and value

Effective June 2017, Tipmont’s service charge will increase from $29 per month to $32.50 per month for residential members. The rate adjustment pays for continued investment in the distribution system to maintain service reliability. System performance In 2012, Tipmont launched an initiative to improve your service reliability while continuing to meet the growing demand for […]

Where does your energy dollar go?

There are two ways to explore where your energy dollar goes: inside your home (how you use your energy) and outside your home (how Tipmont uses your energy dollars).

2016 Reliability Report: Mother Nature returns

When I wrote our 2015 reliability report last year, I knew Mother Nature had been overly kind. The majority of our outages most years stem from weather-related events. 2015 was, by all accounts, a very weather-neutral year in our service area. In 2016, our total member minutes out was about 33 percent higher. However, the […]

Avoiding the energy rush

Did you know that when you use electricity often matters as much as how much electricity you consume? Meeting increasing demand Electricity use fluctuates throughout the day based on consumer demand, and electric co-ops such as Tipmont must be able to provide enough electricity to meet the total energy demand during times of highest energy […]

Delivering value in 2016

What a year it’s been for Tipmont and its members. Since January 1, 2016 Tipmont has hooked up 361 new membership service locations. That may not sound like much, but at a time when many rural electric cooperatives are experiencing flat or declining growth, we are acutely aware of how lucky we are to have […]

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