News releases

March 9, 2018, release from the Missouri Department of Economic Development. Contact: Maggie Kost, DED, 573-522-5058 | maggie.kost@ded.mo.gov Marston, MO – Delaware-based Magnitude 7 Metals announced plans today to create more than 450 jobs and to reopen an aluminum smelter in Marston, Missouri. “After the closure of the aluminum smelter in Marston, hundreds of people worked ...

MARYVILLE, Missouri – Tenaska, one of the leading independent power producers in the United States, has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. (Associated) with a capacity of approximately 236 megawatts (MW) of renewable power from a wind project in northwest Missouri. The Tenaska Clear Creek Energy Center project, currently ...

Alan McCune was a freshman physical science teacher at Odessa High School when he got a call from his former high school counselor in the summer of 1982. The counselor worked in human resources at Thomas Hill Energy Center and was looking to hire individuals in preparation for the addition of Unit 3. He asked McCune if he was interested in a job. McCune interviewed, and started ...

Associated Electric Cooperative will receive more than $45,000 through the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation to develop habitat at its Thomas Hill Energy Center for the monarch butterfly – which has experienced a 90 percent decline in the last 20 years.   The Missouri foundation received one of 23 new grants totaling $3.77 million from the National Fish and Wildlife F ...

Note: The following news release was issued April 20 by National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. CLIFTON HILL, Mo.—Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt visited Missouri to discuss the agency’s “Back to the Basics” regulatory approach and learn more about the role electric cooperatives play in powering the nation’s economy. “We can do both: growth ...

Three employees of Associated Electric Cooperative who work at the Thomas Hill Energy Center were among those honored March 21 at the 23rd annual employee recognition awards ceremony at the member-owned wholesale power cooperative’s Springfield headquarters. The recipients are Kenneth R. Hildreth of Macon for the 2016 Excel Award for Mentor of the Year; John Michael Wilhite of ...

Thirty-one employees at New Madrid Power Plant were among those honored at the 23rd annual employee recognition awards ceremony March 21 at the headquarters of Associated Electric Cooperative, a member-owned wholesale power supply cooperative. Excel award recipients are nominated by their peers for the prestigious awards. The Excel Award for Innovative Action went to a team o ...

SPRINGFIELD, MO – Four employees from Associated Electric Cooperative’s Springfield headquarters were among those honored this week at the member-owned, wholesale power supply cooperative’s 23rd annual employee recognition awards ceremony in Springfield. The recipients of the awards are Donald G. Frederick of Springfield, for 2016 Excel Distinguished Service Award; Stacy G. Ja ...

Mike Green is hanging up his hard hat, ready for retirement after nearly 36 years at Associated Electric Cooperative’s Thomas Hill Energy Center.   Located near Clifton Hill, Missouri, the Thomas Hill Energy Center is one of Associated Electric’s coal generation stations used to generate power for six regional and 51 local, member-owned electric cooperatives.   In 1981, Gre ...

Associated Electric Cooperative employee Kim D. Holloway of Poplar Bluff celebrated his 25th year at New Madrid Power Plant, where he is a journeyman machinist mechanic. “My father was a union electrician in the IBEW in St. Louis. He always told me to learn a trade, that you can always work your trade and find more opportunities for employment. The ‘knowledge is power’ ...