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October 16, 1946
NPREA established in Walden |
1950
First power lines energized |
1953
NPREA purchased Mountain
Utilities Corp., moved to Granby
and became MPEI |
1957
MPEI purchased Grand Lake's
North Fork Power |
1959
MPEI purchased Kremmling
Power and Light |
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MPEI lineman restoring power after an outage
MPEI's first boom truck:
a 1942 Chevy
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Once upon a time in the 1940s , North Park
residents– north of Kremmling and along
Highway 40 – grew tired of living without the
benefits of electricity. Convinced there was no
profitability in providing rural people with
electricity, investor-owned power companies
(IOUs) were unwilling to invest the capital
needed to extend power lines into the rural
United States.
Undeterred by IOU rejection, Jackson County
residents established North Park Rural Electric Association (NPREA), a consumer-owned electric
cooperative, on October 16, 1946. With the help
of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA)-
a.k.a.Rural Utilities Service - NPREA obtained
federal loans to construct power lines, bringing
electricity to North Central Colorado. Area
residents' lives were changed forever (see
electricity: before and after). |
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NPREA’s first power lines were energized in 1950. Between 1953 and 1959,NPREA purchased several area power companies including Granby's Mountain Utilites Corporation and municipals in Grand Lake and Kremmling. When the headquarters moved from Walden to Granby (in 1953), NPREA changed its name to Mountain Parks Electric, Inc. (MPEI), reflecting its main service territory: North Park and Middle Park. At that time, MPEI employed an eleven-person line crew and an office staff of seven to service 3,860 meters.
To help power the 21st century, MPEI - your Touchstone Energy® cooperative -
is committed to providing large and small customers with state-of-the-art
technology and personalized service at affordable rates. We've built a
reputation of integrity, accountability, innovation and community commitment
and join together with over 600 other national cooperatives under the
Touchstone Energy® partnership to maintain high standards of service and cooperative principles. |
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| MPEI: Inside the Numbers |
Meters |
18,866 |
Miles of Line |
1,800 |
Employees |
69 |
Patronage Capital Retired |
$9.7 million |
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Main Office - 321 West Agate Avenue, PO Box 170, Granby, Colorado 80446-0170
(970) 887-3378 - FAX (970) 887-3996 Denver Metro area - (303) 377-2525
email us site map |
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