Plummer Getting Utility Change

Kootenai Electric Cooperative will take over many of the business functions of the city of Plummer, Idaho, municipal electric utility, cooperative Operations Manager Gary Nieborsky announced Tuesday.

The city will continue to handle billing and processing of outage notifications, he said, and the cooperative will provide operations, maintenance and engineering services.

The city, with its 740 customers, will continue to get all of its electricity from the Bonneville Power Administration, said Larry Bryant, Kootenai’s marketing director.

The cooperative, which serves 15,500 meters, gets 70 percent of its power from Bonneville, the rest from British Columbia, he said. There are no links between the two systems.

Bryant said Kootenai eventually may take over billing and outage calls, but the information necessary for those operations would have to be input into KEC’s computers.