Welcome to AMEC
The Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives is a statewide service organization for Missouri’s 47 electric cooperatives. Organized in 1937 and headquartered in Jefferson City, AMEC represents the interest of the state’s electric co-ops and their members at the state capital and provides other needed services to Missouri’s member-owned, not-for-profit electric providers.
     In addition to legislative activities AMEC provides job training to electric co-op employees, assists in marketing efforts and produces the award-winning monthly statewide publication Rural Missouri among other activities.

AMEC's Barry Hart Testifies on Capitol Hill
	Barry Hart, CEO of the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives, joined an elite group of panelists who helped enlighten the senators as debate began on the Kerry-Boxer climate change legislation. The committee was the first stop as the senate took up legislation intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. . . READ MORE
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Gov. Nixon details $19.1 million federal broadband award to expand broadband Internet in northeast Missouri
Gov. Jay Nixon today visited Ralls County Electric Cooperative in New London to detail a $19.1 million competitive federal award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand broadband Internet to thousands of residential and commercial customers in northeast Missouri.

Missouri co-ops send strong message to senate

Representatives of Missouri's electric cooperatives join U.S. Senator Kit Bond in stressing the need to keep electricity affordable for Missouri consumers. The co-op leaders presented Bond with signed postcards from 50,000 Missourians concerned about the impact of proposed "cap and trade" legislation . . . READ MORE

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Tackling Climate Change May 2008 - "A sound approach" June 2008 - "Running out of power" July 2008 - "Putting you first" Aug. 2008 - "Reactor renaissance" Oct. 2008 - "Can we capture carbon?" Dec. 2008 - "Affordable & reliable" Jan. 2009 - "Planning our energy future" Feb. 2009 - "Citizen lobbyists" March 2009 - "More productive kilowatts" April 2009 - "Defining affordability" May 2009 - "Renewing innovation" July 2009 - "At the speed of light" August 2009 - "The new nuclear" Sept. 2009 - "Cleaner generation" Oct. 2009 - "In search of a better battery"

Read about issues facing Missouri's electric cooperatives and their members in Rural Missouri • Great growth means rising rates • The high price of cleaner air • The need for more baseload • When time is money • Unconventional kilowatts • Spend now, save later • What about transmission? • The high cost of fuel • Negawatts • The glass half full

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September 2010

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MISSOURI

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Milk from the farm to the table: Mountain Grove dairy farm starts creamery to glass bottle its milk

Missouri's horse: Fox trotters were bred for the Ozarks

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Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives
2722 East McCarty Street, P.O. Box 1645
Jefferson City, Missouri 65102
(573) 635-6857
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