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We are proud to service our members in Northeast Arkansas. It is our goal to provide our members safe, affordable, dependable, consumer-focused utility services. As the challenge of rising energy costs is becoming more difficult across the country, Clay County Electric utilizes all resources, technologies and education to keep our consumer impacts at a minimum.
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) provides help with paying heating costs in winter months to qualifying individuals and families.
Less than a century ago, when rural electric cooperatives first strung power lines from house to house and farm to farm, most members had but a handful of light bulbs to power. With time, they added water pumps, appliances and other electronics, but they couldn’t begin to imagine the number and variety of electrical devices in today’s homes, farms and garages.
Across the U.S., people use a growing amount of electricity at work, at home and, with the growth of electric vehicles (EVs), even on the road.
By Derrill Holly
During winter, for most of us, comfort at home means heat.
Space heaters get seasonal use, but they are responsible for 25,000 residential fires a year, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which pegs the annual mortality rate at 300 a year. Burn injuries associated with surface contacts with room heaters send about 6,000 people to emergency rooms every year.