In late March, Kentucky Municipal Energy Agency’s All Requirements Project Committee and Board of Directors voted to approve the City of Olive Hill, Kentucky’s request to become KYMEA’s newest AR member.
Olive Hill joins the existing AR Members: The Cities of Bardwell, Berea, the Electric Plant Board of the City of Benham, Falmouth, Madisonville, Paris, and Providence, the Frankfort Plant Board, the Barbourville Utility Commission, and the Corbin City Utilities Commission.
“Municipal electric utilities join together to create economies of scale not otherwise afforded, and to provide low-cost and reliable wholesale power for their customers,” KYMEA noted.
Olive Hill, with a population of approximately 1,522, serves 1,010 residential and 198 commercial customers.
KYMEA will begin supplying all of Olive Hill’s wholesale power needs starting June 1, 2025.
Created in September 2015, 11 municipal electric utilities entered into an Interlocal Cooperation Agreement creating KYMEA, a joint public agency.
KYMEA was formed to facilitate effective collaboration among its members to do all things necessary to serve the current and future electric power and energy requirements of the members and to provide assistance to the members related to their electric power and energy utility systems.
