2025 Highlights and Happenings at The Frontier Power Company
• Scholarship winners were First Places Lexa Guilliams, River View High School, and Micah Shupert, Tri Valley High School. Second Places were Audrie Conner, Newcomerstown High School, and Cael Summers, River View High School. Micha Shupert competed at Ohio Electric Cooperatives earning additional scholarship monies.
• Youth Tour to Washington DC winner was Catherine Sibert, River View High School.
• Zach Jennings and Julian Rivera were hired as summer help to complete various jobs for the right-of-way department.
• Hired new employees Corey Gill as the right-of-way supervisor, Aiden Haines in the right-of-way department, and Trace Davis as a propane technician.
• Hosted Customer Appreciation Day on May 2nd at the Frontier Power facility with approximately 700 people in attendance.
• Rob Totten presented electrical safety demonstrations for Earth Day at Wills Creek Dam in May, Coshocton GEARS summer program in May, June, and July, Coshocton Safety Town in June, and Camp Ohio in July. A total of 318 students and 31 adults attended these programs.
• Logan Wallace and JR McCoy took a digger truck to Gnadenhutten Elementary in November to participate in the “Touch A Truck” event during Right to Read Week. Over 400 students and 10 adults learned about how the digger works and all the safety gear linemen are required to wear to complete their jobs safely.
• Hosted our Annual Meeting at the Frontier Power facility on July 25th with approximately 800 members and guests in attendance. All members in attendance received a $10 bill credit and a cooler-lunch tote. Drawings included one member’s name for a $100 bill credit and 10 members’ names for a $25 bill credit.
• Board members were elected by mail and announced at the Annual Meeting. The Frontier Power board election winners were District A, Coshocton County - incumbent Kurt Ellis, District C, Tuscarawas County - Kevin Hinds, and District D, Coshocton County - incumbent Jerry Olinger.
• Board president Bill Daugherty recognized retiring Frontier Power board member David Mizer for 31 years of service.
• Steven K. Nelson, General Manager, was re-elected as chairman of Buckeye Power, Inc. Board of Trustees for his 30th term.
• Blake McKee–1st Class Lineman and Corey Miller–1st Class Lineman traveled to Southside Electric Cooperative in West Virginia to help restore power to their area after multiple rain and ice storms impacted their service area.
• In April, Josh Haumschild–1st Class Lineman/Construction Foreman, Bill Mizer–1st Class Lineman, and JR McCoy–1st Class Lineman, volunteered to help Great Lakes Energy in Michigan after unprecedented and continual ice storms coated their territory with ¼” to ½” of ice, causing widespread trees, poles, and power lines to fall.
• Purchased several animals at the Tuscarawas and Coshocton County fairs supporting our local youth completing FFA and 4-H projects. Kelly Kendall helped clerk the Coshocton Jr. Fair livestock auction and Ethan Helmick served on the Coshocton County Fairboard.
• Returned $48,450 in credits on December electric bills for members with a water heater control switch to help beat the peak.
• Returned approximately $3,008 in credits on June, July, August, and September electric bills for members participating in the “Cool Returns” program.
• Issued grants with funds generated from the “Frontier Power Community Connections Fund” helping organizations totaling $27,800.
• Returned $299,561.96 in general retirement capital credits to current and former members and $273,635.99 was paid to estates.
• Service progress included 105 new connections, 52 individual upgrades, 629 poles set, and 13 new security lights installed.
• Upgraded our Darling substation by removing four smaller transformers and installing one 7.5 MVA transformer. Three new regulators managing voltage exiting the substation were also installed.
• Replaced and rebuilt approximately 2 miles of line.
• Purchased a pintle hitch trailer to haul the Skylift track bucket.
• Purchased a new copier for the office and a new OKIdata printer for the propane department.
• Sponsored the Annual Coshocton Hot Air Balloon Festival in June, a free event for the community. Employees served on the balloon committee, worked the T-shirt booth, and delivered propane to the balloons.
Frontier Power is looking forward to 2026! We are continuing to upgrade our poles to accommodate the long-term Spectrum internet project. Each year, Frontier Power rebuilds older electric lines, and clears rights-of-way to provide reliable electric service to our members. These are two important work jobs that are a priority in maintaining our electric system in good working order. Our upgrades at Darling substation will provide increased capacity, enhancing reliability, and improving efficiency, which helps with growing demand, replacing aging equipment and integrating new technology. Frontier Power embraces the Seven Cooperative Principals, especially “Concern for Community” by providing learning opportunities to area groups with electrical demonstrations, training to our first responders, scholarships to children of members, hosting Customer Appreciation Day and the Coshocton County Hot Air Balloon Festival, and supporting our local 4-H and FFA groups and area schools. Each of our customers is a member-owner, and we are here for you!
