OPALCO Hears from Members at Town Hall Meetings: A Recap
Thank you to the members who joined us at a series of Town Hall meetings in March. A total of 83 members attended the meetings (San Juan: 43, Orcas: 23, … Read more
Broadband
OPALCO Board Takes Action: Balanced Budget = Rate Increase
At their November meeting, the OPALCO Board approved the 2014 budget for a total of $30,665,000, which includes a rate increase of 6%. The increase is necessary to meet the … Read more
OPALCO Board Enthusiastically Supports Broadband Acceleration
November 21, 2013: Eastsound WA─In front of a packed room at their regularly scheduled meeting in Friday Harbor, the OPALCO Board issued and approved the following motion: Our island communities … Read more
CenturyLink Outage: 911 Service Restored; Cooperative Work Continues
CenturyLink has restored access to 911 and local inter-island phone services in San Juan County through a bypass created by splicing CenturyLink’s central office connection into OPALCO’s fiber and microwave … Read more
OPALCO TO AID CENTURYLINK ON SERVICE RESTORATION
Orcas Power & Light Cooperative (OPALCO) is working with CenturyLink to help resolve a county-wide service outage due to a submarine cable break on CenturyLink’s system. Service was disrupted early … Read more
Building the Infrastructure to Serve Our Members
OPALCO is looking to CenturyLink–as well as to other ISPs–to utilize our infrastructure for the benefit of our membership and, in particular, to improve access to broadband in San Juan … Read more