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At a special board meeting Dec. 5, the Chugach Electric Association Board of Directors appointed Brad Evans as Chugach's Acting Chief Executive Officer.

Chugach Electric Association Board Chair Elizabeth Vazquez will release the utility's Blue Ribbon Panel Report at a press conference tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. on December 19th.

The Chugach Electric Association Board of Directors voted to terminate the contract of CEO Bill Stewart at a special meeting Dec. 5.

Chugach Electric Association wants to lower rates for its retail customers. The cooperative utility has asked the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to approve a series of changes that include lower retail rates.

Rebecca Logan has been selected to serve on the board of directors of Chugach Electric Association (Chugach).

Chugach Electric Association received three Excellence in Communications awards from the Northwest Public Power Association. The awards were presented at the association's Northwest Innovations Conference in September.

Chugach Electric Association and the Anchorage Fire Department are continuing a partnership started in 2005 to remove dead and dying trees in the Municipality of Anchorage.

A pair of outages left more than 4,000 Chugach customers without power Tuesday, July 31.

Chugach Electric Association is working on its largest overhead-to-underground conversion project of the year. The $1.7 million project will replace older overhead lines with new buried cable along and adjacent to Johns Road between Klatt and Huffman road

Seven Anchorage government and business leaders with expertise in utility and business issues have been appointed to a panel to oversee the analysis of whether a merger or some type of joint operations makes sense for Southcentral Alaska’s two largest electric utilities, Municipal Light & Power (ML&P) and Chugach Electric Association (CEA).

The Chugach Electric Board voted unanimously at its June 20 meeting to appoint five community executives to a Blue Ribbon Panel. The board has tasked the group to review the utility's organization and operation and make recommendations for the future.

Chugach Board Chair Elizabeth Vazquez and Mayor Mark Begich signed an agreement June 15 aimed at leading to a decision by this fall on whether it makes legal and financial sense for the two utilities to merge or somehow combine operations.

With the goal of better service and stable rates for customers, Southcentral Alaska’s two largest electric utilities, Municipal Light & Power (ML&P) and Chugach Electric Association, have agreed to a process which could lead to a merger or joint operations of the two companies.

If you were a customer of Chugach Electric Association in 1987, the utility may have a check for you.

Chugach set two transformers May 1 and 2 at a new distribution substation located on airport property off Point Woronzof Road, west of Postmark Drive.

APD and Chugach said “thank you” today to Donald Powell, the man who called in a tip
May 12 after spotting a man with a bicycle and chain saw boarding a bus.

Alex Gimarc and P.J. Hill were elected to 3-year terms on the Chugach Electric Association board of directors.

The board of directors of Chugach Electric Association approved a 4-year labor contract with one of its bargaining groups for employees that work at power plants and in certain other jobs. The board took the action at a meeting April 25.

Chugach Electric Association's annual membership meeting will be held the evening of April 26 at the Egan Civic & Convention Center.

Chugach Electric Association's "A-Stable" credit rating was recently reaffirmed by Standard and Poor's Rating Service.

Chugach Electric is renaming its new South Anchorage Substation after Robert W. Retherford at a ceremony at 10 a.m., Friday, March 16. Retherford was the first chief engineer for Chugach, working at the utility from 1950 to 1954.

Four Chugach Electric Association members are running for two seats on the cooperative's board of directors in this spring's election. Each seat is for a 3-year term.

Chugach Electric Association is in the process of repairing the damage done when Susitna River flooding took down transmission line towers last August.

Chugach Electric recorded an all-time system peak load of 479 megawatts between 6 and 7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 9, when the temperature at Chugach's International Station was minus 6 degrees. A peak is the total demand put on the electric system by customers.