2015 Members of the Year

Most people around Whitesville believe Jerry and Vickie Morris are angels.

If someone in the community needs help with medical bills, Jerry and Vickie host a barbecue cook-off to raise money. If a local group lacks funds for a Haiti mission, the couple orders chickens and Boston butts to grill and sell.

Last year, Jerry and Vickie raised at least $200,000 for various causes and nonprofits, including St. Jude Children’s Hospital and Trinity High School.

To recognize Jerry and Vickie’s spirit of volunteerism and dedication to community, they were selected recently as Kenergy’s 2015 Members of the Year. In their honor, the cooperative donated $1,000 to Angels for Ashley – a nonprofit foundation Jerry and Vickie founded in 2009.

2015 Scholarship winners

Scholarship winners at the 2015 Annual Meeting on June 9 were Nolan Chancellor, Owensboro, back row, left; Mackenzie Weedman, Owensboro; Ches Hill, Madisonville; Mitchell Coomes, Owensboro; Michael Grimes, Owensboro; Makenzie Jackson, Owensboro; Nathan West, Calhoun; Levi Pinkston, Calhoun; Ashley Berry, Waverly; third row, left; Kelsie Hansen, Owensboro; BreeAnn Burgess, Owensboro; Katherine Judd, Owensboro; Chloe Dempsey, Calhoun; Sarah Steely, Sebree, second row, left; Martha McGraw, Uniontown; Emma Hagan, Philpot; Hannah Slack,…

Text in outages

Residential members can now text in outages and receive status reports when the lights are out. This new service is limited to residential members with four or fewer accounts. But don’t wait until you have an outage to enroll. The texting system updates once daily, so new enrollees can’t use the program immediately after they sign up. Enrolling today guarantees the system will be available if you experience trouble with…

Electric cooperatives earn top scores for member satisfaction

(ARLINGTON, VA) — Members of not-for-profit electric cooperatives are more satisfied with their utility services than customers of investor-owned (IOU) or municipal utilities, according to the 2015 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).

Touchstone Energy® cooperatives have consistently held the top ACSI ranking, receiving a score of 80 this year. IOUs and municipals scored 74 and 73 respectively.

By comparison, Kenergy earned a score of 81 in 2014.

Kenergy CEO resigns, accepts new position

Kenergy announces the resignation of its President and Chief Executive Officer Greg Starheim. Starheim has served in that role since July 2012. In his notice of resignation, Starheim indicates the reason for his departure from Kenergy is to accept a position as senior vice-president for the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (“CFC”), a prominent and well-respected national organization that provides debt financing and other financial services to electric cooperatives across…

New technology enhances service, reliability

By President and CEO Greg Starheim

Kenergy’s management team continuously looks for ways to improve service to members, to strengthen system reliability and to operate more efficiently.

I am excited to announce an upcoming upgrade to Kenergy's electric system that will achieve all those objectives.

This year, Kenergy will undergo a replacement of existing meters with a new digital advanced metering system.

Kenergy board approves $3 million capital credit retirement

HENDERSON, KY. – Kenergy’s Board of Directors recently voted to return $3 million to its members in the form of a capital credit retirement during the summer of 2015. The difference between a cooperative such as Kenergy and an investor-owned utility is that a cooperative is owned by those it serves. As a member-owner, members share in the co-op’s profits. At the close of each fiscal year, profits are allocated back…

Kenergy promotes Stacy McDonald

Stacy McDonald has been promoted to a Member Service Representative. As such, she will be responsible for providing courteous, accurate and prompt service to members and the general public. She will assist members with deferred payment agreements and perform other member service functions. Before coming to Kenergy in early January, Stacy worked 11 years as an office manager at Ohio Valley Medical Associates. She is completing her associate’s degree in…