woodruff electric cooperative edition
Substation Built to Serve Woodruff Electric Members Woodruff Electric Cooperative Corporation (WECC) constantly strives to improve our system, which in turn enhances service to the membership of the cooperative. In November of 2017, Woodruff Electric broke ground on the 25th substation in our seven-county service area. This new substation is located in Woodruff County on Highway 49, south of Hillemann, Arkansas. The substation, known as “Hunter North,” was energized on December 6, 2018. On January 8, the substation began serving approximately 1,000 meters consisting of residential, irrigation and commercial load. “This new substation will increase our ability to better serve our membership by handling their daily operational needs, to disperse the increased load during irrigation season and assist during power outages,” said WECC’s Vice President of Engineering The Hunter North substation began serving load in January of 2019 to increase reliability for Woodruff Electric’s membership in Woodruff and Cross Counties. Jimmy Cook. The Hunter North Substation is in full operation and gives the cooperative the ability to easily add more load to our system in Woodruff and Cross counties in the future. “Woodruff Electric always strives to provide safe, reliable and affordable power to our membership and this is just one way we do that – investing in our system,” added Mr. Cook.
Vice President of Engineering Jimmy Cook (far left) along with the Engineering Department employees (left to right) Justin Loveday, James McMahan, Kevin Scott, and Glenn Shepherd, played a vital role in the planning and execution of the Hunter North Substation.
District I Manager Teddy Little (far right) along with construction crews including (left to right) Daniel Baker, Josh Armstrong, Trevor Adams, Hunter McCorkle, Michael McGowan, and Nikia Jacobs were actively involved in constructing new service lines and rebuilding higher capacity lines to the Hunter North Substation.
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3201 Highway 1 North, Forrest City, Arkansas 72335 (870) 633-2262 Outages: (888) 559-6400 www.woodruffelectric.coop
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APRIL 2019
WOODRUFF ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE