February - Oklahoma Electric Cooperative
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Industry News<br />
January 2013<br />
Norman, <strong>Oklahoma</strong><br />
It's getting hot in here<br />
NORMAN, Okla.—<br />
The National Weather<br />
Service expects<br />
above-normal<br />
temperatures for the<br />
Southwestern U.S.<br />
for the first quarter<br />
of 2013. Along with<br />
warm temperatures,<br />
drier-than-normal<br />
conditions should<br />
continue. Warmest<br />
conditions should be<br />
in S.E. New Mexico<br />
and West Texas.<br />
Winter temperatures<br />
continue to follow<br />
the above average<br />
warming trend we<br />
have seen for the past<br />
Chu to step<br />
down, maybe<br />
NRECA,<br />
WASHINGTON,<br />
D.C.— Bloomberg<br />
News reported Jan. 18<br />
rumors of Energy Sec.<br />
Steven Chu's intention<br />
to depart his Cabinet<br />
post. The announcement<br />
is expected in the<br />
coming weeks.<br />
few years according<br />
to data collected by<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong> <strong>Electric</strong><br />
Co-op (OEC). Current<br />
winter weather data<br />
for central <strong>Oklahoma</strong><br />
shows temperatures<br />
2.06 degrees above<br />
average.<br />
According to the<br />
National Climatic<br />
Data Center (NOAA)<br />
2012 was the warmest<br />
year on record. OEC<br />
charts Oct. through<br />
May in its winter<br />
data. Summer charts<br />
begin in June and<br />
correspond with the<br />
Time-of-Use rates.<br />
Key decision on<br />
Keystone XL<br />
NRECA,<br />
WASHINGTON,<br />
D.C.— According to<br />
the Jan. 18 Washington<br />
Times, whether or<br />
not the President<br />
approves the Keystone<br />
XL pipeline hinges<br />
on which is more<br />
important: creating<br />
Something<br />
to write<br />
home about<br />
NRECA/ECT.COOP<br />
WADESBORO, N.C.—<br />
Rod Mabry, retired<br />
warehouse coordinator<br />
from Pee Dee <strong>Electric</strong><br />
in Wadesboro, N.C.<br />
refuses to sit idly by in<br />
retirement while good<br />
equipment goes unused.<br />
Although originally<br />
a lineman in the 1970s<br />
and 1980s, a near fatal<br />
car accident in 1985 left<br />
Mabry unable to climb<br />
poles.<br />
"If you get something<br />
in your blood, [it's<br />
hard to let it go,]" said<br />
Mabry. "I'll always be a<br />
lineman at heart."<br />
jobs and energy<br />
independence or<br />
fighting climate change.<br />
American Petroleum<br />
Institute Senior<br />
Refining Manager<br />
Cindy Schild told the<br />
Toronto Globe and<br />
Mail, approving the<br />
<strong>Electric</strong> Co-op Today photo<br />
taken by Steve Preslar<br />
Rod Mabry's one-ofa-kind<br />
transformerturned-mailbox.<br />
Mabry located an<br />
outdated transformer<br />
from a manufacture<br />
friend and with the help<br />
of a couple of friends,<br />
converted it into a<br />
mailbox. The letter<br />
carrier "loves it," said<br />
Mabry.<br />
pipeline is a no brainer.<br />
It's good for consumers<br />
and in our national<br />
interest to secure<br />
strategic oil supplies<br />
from our upper plains<br />
states and Canada that<br />
could otherwise be<br />
shipped to Asia."<br />
News Magazine 5
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