News & Highlights

Can You Dig It?

April is National Safe Digging Month When Should I Contact 811? Outdoor digging requires you to contact 811. Building a fence? Planting a...

ReCHARGE EV Charging Program

Turn Your Garage Into Your Very Own Fueling Station! ReCHARGE, MEC’s residential managed electric vehicle (EV) charging program, allows members to charge their...

Run for Office in 2023

Board of Trustee Election Packets Available January 5th For Districts 5 & 7 As a member-owned electric cooperative, MEC is governed by a...

Into The Great Wide Open

Ovando School Students Venture Beyond the Playground. Ovando School students, ages six to thirteen years old, put down their pencils and picked up...

Annual Meeting Recap

MEC’s 86th Annual Meeting was held on Saturday, March 19 at the University of Montana. After two years of event cancellations and postponements,...

Annual Meeting

Join us for our 86th Annual Meeting of members. Date: 03.19.2022 Registration: 9:00am – 11:00am Meeting Begins: 11:00am Location: University of Montana UC...

Generator Safety

Know how to use your generator safely. Incorrect use of your generator can lead to carbon monoxide poisoning, electrocution or fires. Use a...

You’ve Got Mail!

Capital Credit Checks Hit Mailboxes in Late-May You’ve got mail… well, maybe. In 2021, Missoula Electric Cooperative (MEC) will be returning $1 Million...

In The Clear

The Co-Op’s Approach To Vegetation Management In our service territory, there is certainly no shortage of rugged terrain, abundant wildlife and thick vegetation....

Safety Snapshot

A peek inside MEC’s Safety Program In honor of National Electrical Safety Month, we sat down with MEC’s Operations Specialist and Safety Program...

Do More With Less

Helping Members Save Energy AND Money in 2021 By Dan Rogers Doing more with less. That is the essence of energy efficiency –...

Then. Now. Always.

Proud to Power Your Life Who would have fathomed that this Spring, COVID-19 would test our community and our nation? The ever-changing circumstances...

A Proactive Approach to Outages

As a member-owned utility, Missoula Electric Cooperative (MEC) strives to uphold a commitment of service excellence, while delivering safe, affordable, and reliable electricity...

Lineman working in bucket truck

2020 Work Plan Update

As a member-owned utility, Missoula Electric Cooperative (MEC) strives to uphold a commitment to service excellence, while delivering safe, affordable, and reliable electricity...

Smart Thermostats

Heating and cooling costs account for around half of a user’s energy bill according to the U.S. Department of Energy. One of the...

Service Award

Celebrating 15 Years! Danny Baker, GIS Data Specialist Thank you for your dedicated service over the past 15 years! It is because of...

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! I hope that you had a safe and enjoyable holiday season. With 2019 behind us, I want to take the...

Thankful & Grateful

When you think about Missoula Electric Cooperative (MEC), you might associate us with the local community… and you would be right! Our leadership...

Lightening

When The Lights Go Out

Imagine the worst-case scenario. A major storm was predicted, and this time…the predictions were right. Power lines are down and electricity is predicted...

Ismay Sniffing Out AIS

Have Paws. Will Travel.

“Have paws, will travel,” is the slogan of Montana Black Dog Services, a locally-run business, owned and operated by Deb Tirmenstein, a Frenchtown...

Hard Hat

Life on the Line

Working with electricity can be a dangerous job, especially for lineworkers. In fact, USA Today lists line repairers and installers among the most...

Power Cord Heart

The Power of We

Author Anthony J. D’Angelo observed that, “Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.” To a large degree, this...

Manager of Engineering

National Engineering Week

In honor of National Engineering Week, we’d like to introduce you to MEC’s Manager of Engineering, Erik Langaunet. Erik graduated from Montana State...

Travis Koehn with Jordan Solar sets solar panels on top of the K3 brewery in Bonner.

Solar and Suds

MEC partners with KettleHouse on K3 Solar Garden It is hard to imagine a way to make our Solarshare community solar program more...

New Employees

Missoula Electric Cooperative would like to introduce the newest members of our MEC team. Our new Warehouse Material Handler, Mike Downey joins us...

Fall Foliage, Ovando, Montana

Service Awards

Missoula Electric Co-op would like to recognize the following employees for their years of dedicated service. Dana Cyr — 5 Years Sheryl Dimmitt...

Snowy mountain landscape

Energy Assistance

Know who to call before winter comes Heating season is just around the corner, and energy assistance is available. Energy assistance programs are...