22898 West Road Wellington, Ohio 44090 440-647-2133 lmre@fesco-oh.org
Who are we?
Lorain-Medina Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a member-owned, member-controlled nonprofit electric distribution utility located in North Central Ohio. LMRE is one of 24 electric Co-ops in Ohio.
Lorain-Medina Rural Electric Scholarship
Are your parent’s members of Lorain-Medina Rural Electric Cooperative? If so you could win a college, vocational or technical school scholarship of $2,500. First place will be given for both a boys and girls division as well as runners-up in each division which will receive $1,500 scholarships. Learn more...
In June, the House of Representatives narrowly passed a climate change bill (HR2454). The Senate is expected to take up this issue this fall. This video from the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association provides an update and encourages people to let their voices be heard by accessing Our Energy, Our Future Web site and continuing a dialogue with our elected representatives in Washington.
Lorain-Medina Rural Electric Cooperative and the Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives, a nationwide alliance of electric cooperatives, rolled out a "revolutionary" national energy-efficiency campaign designed to inspire consumers to easily save energy and money.
Maintenance Updates
Updated November 18, 2009
The cooperative believes the cheapest form of maintenance is preventive maintenance.
The cooperative routinely does pole testing, tree-trimming and meter testing. Some of the maintenance is performed by LMRE crews and others are completed by contractors retained by the cooperative.The pole testing for 2009 has been completed.
The cooperative is currently NOT testing meters as it plans to announce in the coming months a full deployment of automatic meter reading equipment starting in 2010.
Asplundh Tree Expert Co. is currently trimming trees in Grafton, LaGrange, Litchfield, Liverpool, Penfield and York townships.
LMRE bucket trucks, derrick-digger and pick-up trucks are yellow. All cooperative vehicles have cooperative logos on their sides. Employees carry identification cards.
Contractors will have magnetic LMRE placards on their vehicles and carry a letter of introduction from the cooperative.
