{"id":35478,"date":"2020-04-10T23:36:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T07:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/?page_id=35478"},"modified":"2024-04-15T14:11:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:11:14","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/my-cooperative\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-25-04-Homer-sunrise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36861 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-25-04-Homer-sunrise-340x226.jpg\" alt=\"Homer Electric Cooperative lit signage in front of a bright purple, pink, orange, and yellow sunrise\" width=\"340\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-25-04-Homer-sunrise-340x226.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-25-04-Homer-sunrise-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-25-04-Homer-sunrise.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Mission Statement<\/h2>\n<p>To safely provide reliable electricity to our members and our community through superior customer service and innovative energy solutions at fair and reasonable prices.<\/p>\n<h2>Beginnings<\/h2>\n<p>In 1945, 9 forward-thinking citizens of Homer met and began working together to form Alaska\u2019s fifth rural electric cooperative. Their first official Rural Electrification Administration (REA) meeting was December 17, 1945, and the system was energized March 13, 1950, making Homer brighter for 56 cooperative members.<\/p>\n<h2>Locations<\/h2>\n<p>Homer Electric employs 130+ regular, seasonal, and\/or temporary employees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Corporate office in Homer<\/li>\n<li>Central Peninsula Service Center in Kenai<\/li>\n<li>Nikiski Generation Plant<\/li>\n<li>Bradley Lake Hydroelectric Plant<\/li>\n<li>Bernice Lake Power Plant<\/li>\n<li>Soldotna Power Plant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>HEA Facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>25,401 member-owners<\/li>\n<li>36,905 meter locations<\/li>\n<li>2,499 total miles of energized line<\/li>\n<li>3,166 square-mile service area on the southern Kenai Peninsula<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Statement To safely provide reliable electricity to our members and our community through superior customer service and innovative energy solutions at fair and reasonable prices. Beginnings In 1945, 9 forward-thinking citizens of Homer met and began working together to form Alaska\u2019s fifth rural electric cooperative. Their first official Rural Electrification Administration (REA) meeting was [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":35474,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35478"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42191,"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35478\/revisions\/42191"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homerelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}