By Robert Medley
Managing Editor
Cimarron Electric Cooperative, based in Kingfisher, will celebrate their 87th annual meeting Thursday, Sept. 14 with barbecue and music for the community.
Registration opens at 4 p.m. at the Kingfisher County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building, 300 S. 13th Street in Kingfisher. There will be free barbecue, free gifts and free “fist bumps,” a flyer reads. There will even be live music. Dinner is 5 p.m. followed by a business meeting at 6:15 p.m. The prize drawing is after the meeting, and you must be present to win.
Cimarron Electric has been serving customers in central and western Oklahoma, including Kingfisher and Canadian counties since 1936. The company serves nine total counties with 4,596 miles of line. Six of the 22 Cimarron Electric substations have been upgraded to handle the growth and demand in the eastern and central parts of the district.
Jeff Hyatt, CEO, said the company continues to see a lot of growth from Cashion to El Reno.
“A lot of people are moving out of the city for a more peaceful country life but close to the big city,” Hyatt said.
The ice storm of October 2020 caused a lot of damage system wide with downed power lines and utility poles. The company continues to work toward restoring the system to the way it was before the storm with work to strengthen lines and minimize the impact of future storms.
The company also continues to upgrade existing lines and have implemented the new building specs on new construction and rebuilt lines to provide better reliability to our members’ consumers, according to a statement on the company’s website.
Cimarron Electric has worked with Western Farmers Electric Cooperative to expand service from Piedmont to Yukon.
The four-county substation opened at Waterloo and Sara for the Cashion, Piedmont, Deer Creek and Edmond areas of Logan, Oklahoma, Kingfisher and Canadian counties to “make additional transmission grid upgrades to strengthen the lines in our existing substations,” the company reports.
New housing developments in the Cashion, Deer Creek and Piedmont school districts have increased the demand in recent years. Work is being done to expand the system, Hyatt said.
Company officials report ongoing priorities to strengthen communities.
“While focusing on member needs, cooperatives work for the sustainable development of their communities through policies accepted by their members,” the company reports on their website.
Hyatt said people can register for the event in a drive-thru line Thursday. There are TVs, weed-eaters, chainsaws, cash and other prizes. The grand prize drawing is for $1,000.
The Cimarron Electric service area covers Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Major and Oklahoma counties. There are 19,000 meters for homes and businesses.
Cimarron Electric has been serving customers in Kingfisher and Canadian counties since 1936. The company serves nine total counties with 4,596 miles of line. Six of the 22 Cimarron Electric substations have been upgraded to handle the growth and demand in the eastern and central parts of the district.
“We continue to upgrade existing lines and have implemented the new building specs on new construction and rebuilt lines to provide better reliability to our members’ consumers,” according to a statement on the company’s website.
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