November 25, 2024
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For Immediate Release                                           Susan Cunningham, 785-271-4815

KEPCO Board Elects Officers & Executive Committee

TOPEKA, KS – Chuck Goeckel, general manager of Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Inc. in Council Grove, was unanimously elected as president of Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (KEPCo), a generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative headquartered in Topeka.  

            KEPCo conducted the elections at its board meeting held on Nov. 22, 2024, in Wichita, where its board of trustees also elected the following trustee representatives to serve as its executive committee: vice president – Lori Jones, trustee at Ninnescah Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Inc. in Pratt; secretary – Bryan Coover, president of the board of trustees at Twin Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. in Altamont.; and treasurer – Chris Parr, CEO of FreeState Electric Cooperative, Inc. in Topeka and McLouth. Along with the officers, the following individuals were elected to fill the three additional positions on the executive committee: Kevin Brownlee, CEO of Butler Electric Cooperative Association, Inc. in El Dorado; Mark Scheibe, CEO of Heartland Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. in Girard; and Kirk Thompson, manager of CMS Electric Cooperative, Inc. in Meade.

            KEPCo was incorporated in 1975 as a not-for-profit  G&T with the responsibility to procure an adequate, reliable, and affordable energy supply for its 16 distribution electric cooperative members. KEPCo’s members collectively serve more than 75,000 consumer-members in the eastern two-thirds of Kansas, which represents nearly 200,000 rural Kansans. 

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