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More than 30 members, employees, and Black River students toured the Cardinal Power Plant in Brilliant, Ohio. The trip included lunch at Froehlich's restaurant in Steubenville before the walking tour at Cardinal. Members took the opportunity to learn more about the facility that they, as Ohio electric co-op members, own. The students learned about the science behind the generation of electricity. 

Over the last 15-plus years, Buckeye Power, Lorain-Medina Rural Electric Cooperative’s wholesale power supplier, and the other electric cooperatives that own it, have invested more than $1 billion to upgrade the Cardinal Generating Station in Brilliant, Ohio, with environmental controls to meet today’s clean air standards.

Construction of Lorain-Medina Rural Electric Cooperative’s solar array wrapped up just in time for the annual meeting. Energized in early July, there are 228 panels soaking up rays behind LMRE’s office on West Road in Wellington Township. 
Subscriptions to the energy output of these panels were made available for the first time to members attending the annual meeting last month. Any member interested in purchasing a subscription to the output of these panels can pick up a contract from the cooperative office during business hours or get one from the energy services advisor.

We are mourning the loss today of Fred Alspach, who worked 36 years for Lorain-Medina Rural Electric Cooperative. He died tragically Wednesday morning, July 19, in a motorcycle accident in the Village of Wellington.