You flip a switch in your home, and light fills a dark room.  You plug in your cell phone, and it’s charged in an hour.  You fill a refrigerator with food, and it’s cold or frozen in minutes.
Columbus, OH—Last Christmas, Ohio came within minutes of experiencing blackouts over the holiday due to electricity demand exceeding available power supply.
For the first time, all 24 Ohio cooperatives have an apprentice enrolled in the COLT program.
Adams REC has joined the RESAP program which means we now have 100% participation in Ohio and WV! Their first onsite observation will be scheduled for 2024.
The ST&LP department’s proposed training topics for 2024 have been approved by the Safety Curriculum Subcommittee and the ST&LP committee and can be downloaded by
The 2023 OLSA Golf Scramble took place on September 1 at Glenross Golf Club.
I recently attended a RESAP Area Administrators meeting in Louisville, KY when Bud Branham, Director of Safety Programs at NRECA began the meeting with a statement something like this:
Ohio volunteered to work with NRECA International on a project in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to conduct training for technicians of mini-grid systems who have been asked to work with primary voltage systems (11kV Delta) for…