Bluestem Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a nonprofit and member-owned electric cooperative. In 1999 two cooperatives, P R & W Electric Cooperative and C & W Electric Cooperative consolidated to form Bluestem Electric Cooperative. These cooperatives were incorporated over 70 years ago by groups of rural citizens and Bluestem Electric exists today to provide its members with quality electric service at the lowest reasonable cost consistent with good business practices.
Over the years the cooperative has added valuable programs and services for its members so that they can fully enjoy the many benefits that rural living has to offer. Remember, we are here to help you take advantage of these services. Give us a call or stop by whenever you have a need or want additional information about our programs and services. Site location maps and addresses can be found on our contact page!
Our Clay Center and Wamego offices are open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
To report an outage call one of our offices listed below. Our outage service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Clay Center - 785-632-3111 / 800-297-8725
Wamego - 785-456-2212 / 800-558-1580
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For Sale
Bluestem Equipment offered at Public Auction
by J.J. Kane Auction Service
Bluestem will auction a number of utility trucks and other utility equipment items with J.J. Kane Auction Service (a national auction service for utility equipment). Any member that has an interest in bidding on the trucks or equipment can do so on-line following the auction service’s instructions. The auction will be held on May 17, 2012, at 12650 NW Prairieview Road in Kansas City, MO, near the Kansas City International Airport.The trucks and equipment will be available for viewing and to operate at the auction site on May 16, 2012, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.This excess Bluestem equipment is the result of the cooperative’s completion of the work related to the 2007 ice storm and the 2009 snow storm that damaged the system.
The following is a list of the equipment submitted to the J.J. Kane Auction Service:
►1995 Ford F700 Diesel Altec BucketTruck
►2002 Freight FL80 Diesel Digger Derrick
►2002 Ford 1/2 Ton Gas Pickup
►2003 Dodge 1/2 Ton Gas Pickup
►1992 Ford 1/2 Ton Gas Flatbed
►1999 Ford 1 Ton Diesel Versa-lift SmallBucket Truck
►1994 Chevy Kodiak Diesel Teco DoubleBucket Truck
►1995 Chevy 30,000 lb. Gas 427 TelelectDigger Derrick
Many of our members want to save energy and money but are not sure of the best products to purchase. We are pleased to offer access to 20% off best-quality energy efficient products through EnergySavers.coop. You can easily access the energy saving products for your home, business and personal use through this website. Just take a look at the EnergySavers.coop's special savings on items like CFLs and other lighting products, weatherization products for your home, water conservation items, and other tested energy saving devices. This new service is just another way that we are looking out for you.
Take the home tour and see how much money you could save!
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Interested in Wind Power? Is wind an Option for You? First, Estimate the Cost!
Kansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. has put together an excel format estimator for it's member cooperatives and their customers. Go to: http://www.kec.org/smallwindcashflow.aspx click on Small Wind Cash Flow Model once you open the spreadsheet, click on the "instructions" tab at the bottom for input and term descriptions. This spreadsheet will help answer the above questions.
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Bluestem is a participating member of SafeElectricity and considers electricity safety our greatest concern, so please explore the SafeElectricity Website to learn about electicity safety.
Bluestem joins Kansas Flinthills Tourism Coalition as part of its on going effort to promote economic development for the area. Check out what the Kansas Flint Hills has to offer!
BLUESTEM ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INTERNET DISCLAIMER:
Bluestem’s internet website provides "hyperlinks" to other internet websites that contain information created, published, maintained or otherwise posted by institutions or organizations independent of Bluestem Electric Cooperative, Inc. Bluestem does not endorse, approve, certify or control those external websites, and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy or timeliness of information located at those sites.
Use of any information obtained from those websites is voluntary, and reliance on that information should only be undertaken after an independent review of its accuracy. Reference on Bluestem's website or any "linked-to" external website to any specific commercial product, process or service by trade name, trademark, service mark or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation or favoring by Bluestem Electric Cooperative.
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There are no problems currently in supplying you with electricity! If you have no power, check your breakers and fuses to see if the problem is on your system. If not, check with your neighbors to see if they have power and then call your local Bluestem Office to report an individual outage or whether the whole line is without power!
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What is a PCA (Power Cost Adjustment)
Bluestem Electric Cooperative purchases power each month from its power supplier – Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (KEPCo) at a wholesale cost to meet the electric energy needs of its members. This cost of wholesale power is a significant cost of providing electric service to the member.
The PCA provides for a monthly adjustment dependent on any differences in the average cost from the base cost of wholesale power.
When the kilowatt hour cost to the cooperative is lower than the basecost, there is a credit to the bill.When the kilowatt hour cost to the cooperative is higher than the base cost, there is an adder to the bill.
Wholesale power costs fluctuate for a host of reasons.In the hot summer months, the excess demand for energy requires KEPCo to purchase power from more expensive sources, which includes additional generation costs.
As you can guess, people generally don’t ask questions when their bills are lowered with a credit.They tend to ask questions when their bill is increased.However, consumers can help the cooperative and in turn, themselves by curtailing their usage during the peak hours of the hot days of summer (approx. 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.).
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WEATHER DATA
Weather Data from the Manhattan Reporting Center (for the past 7 years) is located on the Information Page
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Bluestem's Process for Restoring Power After A Storm can be located on the Information Page
