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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Seward voters will decide this spring whether they want to sell their city-run electrical utility to Homer Electric Association for a purchase price of about $25 million.
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HEA members will elect three new directors to the co-op's board this spring.
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The co-op is looking to the state fund for money to look into the feasibility of two projects — one wind project and one geothermal project.
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Seward voters will decide in May 2023 whether to combine the utilities into a Kenai Peninsula-wide electric cooperative.
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A fleet of Tesla batteries makes up Homer Electric Association’s battery energy storage system, or BESS — a facility that stores a constant supply of power for the utility’s grid.