A member receives a phone call from someone claiming to be a GVEA employee. The caller tells the member that their power will be turned off immediately unless payment information is given. The caller is trying to obtain personal financial information. It’s a scam.
If your car has been winterized, you should have a plug coming out the front end of your car. Most winterization kits include an engine block heater, a battery pad heater, an oil pan heater and a three-way cord with a lighted end (so you can plug in all of …
Golden Valley has offered the Home$ense Energy Audit to its members for more than 20 years. It’s a quick, easy way to learn how to save energy. It takes a little over an hour and costs $39.95. The Home$ense audit focuses on saving electrical energy. It doesn’t cover installing new doors …
Golden Valley is the greenest utility in the railbelt. Should the co-op add even more renewable power? Find out how renewable energy has impacted the Germans and how your co-op is trying to protect you.
Winter is coming and it’s getting dark at night. We know that some of you have turned on your porch lights with no plan to turn them off until March. Everyone likes a bright outdoor light, but do you know how much they cost to operate?
“My daughter runs our clothes dryer every morning for one hour at medium temp. Can you estimate what the daily cost would be?” asked a member recently. The dryer is one of the higher users of electricity in a home. It can consume up to about 5,000 watts, but let’s …
Halloween is just around the corner making this a great time to talk about vampires. Let’s leave blood-sucking vampires out of this and instead talk about the ones that suck electricity.
The Good¢ents Board of Trustees recently reviewed 20 applications and awarded 12 grants totaling $53,803. Here is a breakdown of the awards: $5,500 to the Breast Cancer Detection Center of Alaska for an energy-conservation project focused on lighting. $3,000 to Calypso Farm & Ecology Center for a technology upgrade. $5,000 …
Join us this Saturday at the Carlson Center for the Fairbanks Area Preparedness Expo. GVEA’s booth will highlight how and why we experience power outages as well as backup power sources. We’ll have Generator Booklets on hand as well as other outage preparedness information.
A key component of one of the water outlet valves at our Healy Power Plant went missing this spring. During break up, a big chunk of ice came down the Nenana River and ripped the operating mechanism (called the bonnet) right off the valve. The valve was stuck in a …