WFEC GENERATION REPORT
OEC awarded Spotlight on Excellence award
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Renewables: 48% Natural Gas: 35% Coal: 3% Blend from SPP purchases: 14%
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EC recently received recognition in the national 2020 Spotlight on Excellence Awards program, sponsored by the Council of Rural Electric Communicators (CREC) and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). OEC received a Silver Award in the Most Innovative Use of Digital Communication category for the 2018 Annual Report. OEC's marketing and member relations team produced the awardwinning interactive report. “We are honored to be recognized among our peers at the national level," said Autumn McMahon, manager of marketing and member relations. "We work tirelessly to help provide our members with an exceptional experience and we are always humbled when our efforts are rewarded.” The annual Spotlight on Excellence Awards program recognizes the best communication and marketing efforts by electric cooperatives and related organizations. Electric cooperative communicators and marketing professionals submitted nearly 670 entries in the Spotlight on Excellence program. “Printed news publications, social media and videos are all more important than ever to keep members updated on issues affecting the electric cooperatives and their members,” added Scott Peterson, senior vice president of communications for NRECA. The CREC, founded in 1982, is a volunteer association that works on behalf of more than 4,000 electric cooperative communicators across the United States. NRECA is a national trade association representing more than 900 local electric cooperatives. From growing suburbs to remote farming communities, electric coops serve as engines of economic development for 42 million Americans across 56 percent of the nation’s landscape.
Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (WFEC), OEC's wholesale generation and transmission power provider, has an impressive renewable portfolio that includes wind, hydro and — recently added — solar. OEC's Solar Garden, located at Interstate 35 and Highway 77 in Norman, began producing power in February 2017, and Tuttle's 40-acre Solar Farm began operation in March 2017. As more solar facilities come online, expect to see it added to WFEC's generation report, increasing the already robust mix of renewable energy sources.
Data collected from Western Farmers Electric Cooperative reflects generation and Southwest Power Pool purchases during November 2019.
To view real-time generation output and environmental benefits of OEC's Solar Garden, visit www.okcoop.org/solar. Visit www.okcoop.org/solar-garden-tours to tour OEC's Solar Garden, located at Interstate 35 and Highway 77 in Norman.
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