By Chris Hill, SDMEA Director of Municipal Electric Services
building. I had found it, although, I did feel foolish for driving by the first time.
HOMETOWN - Pierre
I met Electrical Superintendent (ES) Ryan Grant for the first time at the Superintendent/Foreman conference and he has made a point to send me pictures of electrical improvements that have been taking place. Including new lighting at the causeway and neat pictures taken from an airplane at night that revealed new LED lighting scattered throughout the city.
Ryan Grant gave me fairly good directions to find the Pierre Municipal Electric office. I still continued to drive past it on the way to visit. It didn’t take long to realize that I was now at the Pierre Regional Airport and needed to turn around. It was very reassuring when I decided to turn south and saw transformer after transformer behind a
Aerial view of the city at night. Photo by Patrick Callahan.
Inside of the Pierre Municipal Electric Shop.
Pierre Causeway lights.
Pierre Municipal Electric Shop Yard.
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