Homer Electric Association

Windy conditions continue to cause power outages across the central Kenai Peninsula. Communities from Nikiski to Clam Gulch are affected.

An intentional car crash in Nikiski snapped a Homer Electric Association pole, causing a 16-hour outage. John Covich of Nikiski was charged with six counts of assault and criminal mischief.

A vote on whether to sell the utility to Homer Electric narrowly failed in May. Despite public opposition, the city council voted to put it back on the ballot, along with a question of whether the approval threshold should be lowered from 60% to a simple majority.

After the sale of its utility to Homer Electric Association failed, again, by just a handful of votes, the city of Seward is trying to figure out what to do next.

More than a year after Cook Inlet’s largest oil and gas producer warned of a looming natural gas shortfall, consultants released a report this week detailing possible ways to meet demand, including imported LNG.

Jim Duffield (District 1), Dan Green (District 2) and Jim Levine (District 3) were elected to the Homer Electric Association board of directors at the utility's annual member meeting last night.

The sale needed a 60% margin of votes to go through and failed by just seven votes. This is not the first time Homer Electric Association has unsuccessfully submitted a bid to buy city-owned Seward Electric Association.

As of Wednesday, the electric sale did not have more than 60% approval from voters — a threshold that kept a similar sale from passing in 2000.. The city will count the absentee votes it received tomorrow.

This May, voters in the city of Seward will decide or not to sell their city-run electric utility to Homer Electric Association. More details about that sale became public this week when the city council approved a purchasing agreement.

Voting in Homer Electric Association’s 2023 election opens Friday. This year, voters in each of HEA’s three districts will decide between two candidates for the co-op’s board of directors.