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Kevin Moore, Hoopeston, was re-elected to the Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative Board of Directors at the EIEC Annual Meeting events in June. He has served on the Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative Board of Directors since 2014 and currently holds the position of President of the Board. Moore is the representative for Directorate District 5. He received the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Board Leadership Director Certificate in 2021.  Moore also serves as Eastern Illini’s alternate director on the Prairie Power Board of Directors. Kevin and his wife, Kasey, reside near Hoopeston in Vermilion County where he operates a grain farm.

You may have heard about the possibility of rolling blackouts this summer. We thought we would break down the issue and offer some insights on what be coming our way. The national and regional reliability entities (the North American Electric Reliability Corporation - NERC, and the  Midcontinent Independent System Operator - MISO) identified the possibility of rolling blackouts to maintain system integrity and reliability on the larger transmission grid this summer. In recent years, the retirement of fossil fired generation capacity (mainly coal fired power plants) partially offset by the addition of renewable resources such as wind and solar, have changed the generation resource mix, resulting in a reduced amount of excess or reserve capacity, and a reduced number of available rotating generation machines. Simply put, there are fewer power plants available to start generating power at a moments notice than there used to be. Overall though, the chance for rolling blackouts for 2022 is not zero, but just slightly above. It would take a combination of extended hot weather, generation resource outages, and transmission system issues for rolling blackouts to occur. Although we don't think it's going to happen, we're following this situation closely and will be ready to notify members if we get advance warning of any pending rolling blackouts. 

Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative members are encouraged to register for one of the three annual meetings being held in June. Thursday, June 2, 2022 at the Tuscola Community Building, Tuscola, IL Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at the Gordyville Auction House, Gifford, IL Thursday, June 9, 2022 at the Iroquois County Fairgrounds A sit-down chicken dinner will be served between 3:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m followed by the business meeting at 6:15 p.m.  Let us know how many will be attending by registering at: https://eiec.org/am22_registration  

Nominating petitions will be available on February 24, 2022 for the June 9, 2022 director election. The following members were nominated by the Board of Directors and have agreed to serve on the 2022 Credentials Committee:  - District 1, Marie Monk, Ashkum - District 2, Brian Koerner, Chatsworth - District 4, Delores Butzow, Onarga - District 8, Rodney Blackburn, Sadorus; Josh Shelmadine, Tuscola The Credentials Committee will meet at Eastern Illini’s headquarters in Paxton during the week of April 11th to review the qualifications of all candidates who file nominating petitions. The Credentials Committee will determine the eligibility of the candidates to serve as an EIEC director. Directors in Directorate Districts 1, 7, and 8 will be elected at Eastern Illini’s Annual Meeting on June 9, 2022.  Incumbent directors Tyler Finegan, Ashkum, District 1; Steve Gordon, Rantoul, District 7; Chad Larimore, Bement, District 8 have indicated they will seek reelection.  Nominating petitions can be obtained by calling 217-379-0423 or you may stop by the Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative headquarters in Paxton between 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday - Friday.  Each member who desires to be elected to the board of directors must have a petition signed by not less than 25 members of Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative. Petitions must be filed by Friday, April 8, 2022 no later than 4:00 p.m.