1 Her childhood ambition was to be a marine biologist, following in the steps of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, whose show The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau taught a generation about sea life and protecting it.
“Like a lot of kids, I dreamed of being a marine biologist or scientist like Cousteau,” said Kimberley Oldham, a 27-year federal service member and Southwestern Division Hydropower Asset Investment Manager. “Ultimately, having grown up in landlocked Oklahoma, not being a great swimmer, being claustrophobic when wearing a mask and afraid of sharks probably didn’t lend itself to that profession.”
Oldham, a Norman, Okla., native is of both Creek and Euchee descent and a member of the Muscogee Nation. Although becoming a Marine Biologist didn’t quite pan out, she attended the University of Oklahoma earning a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering degree.
North Arkansas Electric Cooperative (NAEC) will have two planned outages for members served by the Norfork Substation beginning at 4 a.m. Tuesday and 4 a.m. Friday.
The outages are necessary for Southwestern Power Administration personnel to perform work on the dam’s substation and switchyard safely.
Each outage is expected to last one-and-a-half hours and will affect the 1,938 member accounts in and around Norfork, Jordan, Lone Rock and Shady Grove areas. Affected members received an automated call at the number NAEC has on file Thursday afternoon.
Customers in these areas may call NAEC at (870) 895-3221 with any questions.
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Posted By: Hewson Beattie February 20, 2021 @ 4:16 pm Local News, News
Table Rock Dam, Bull Shoals Dam, and others, worked around the clock to provide extra power to the Southwestern Power Pool at a time of crucial need, in some cases generating more than capacity.
Over 91,000 Megawatt Hours were generated in 7 days, which is enough to power 8,500 homes for an entire year.
The Southwest Power Pool consists of 14 member states, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming. When the Southwestern Power Pool has an emergency, as it did the past week and a half, it requests supplemental power.