BPU Crews continue to make these meter switchouts at an incredible pace. As of today, July 10th, 2020, crews are happy to report that they are still ahead of schedule. Sunday (July 12), the BPU will begin its third set of calls to customers who will be affected by work that will start late next [...]
BPU Crews are moving along at a fantastic clip! As of today, July 7th, 2020, crews are happy to report that they are ahead of schedule. Tonight the BPU will begin their second set of calls to customers who will be affected by next week's work. This notice gives customers approximately a five-day lead-time to [...]
On May 21st, it was announced that BPU was going to upgrade our electrical metering system. If you missed it, you can find that article HERE. Well, that time has come! On July 6th, BPU crews will begin making the meter exchanges to complete the project by end of 2020. To minimize customer inconvenience, the [...]
Wishing all of our customers a safe and memorable holiday weekend!
On Monday, June 1st, the McPherson BPU board voted to extend their “no disconnect and no late fees” announcement, which was initially made on March 20th and extended again on April 20th. The latest extension will cover billing due dates for Residential and GSS customers from March 25th, 2020-June 30th, 2020. We are continuing to [...]
The McPherson BPU Is excited to announce that customers will soon receive an upgrade to their metering system. The BPU plans to install Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) equipment at all locations beginning in July 2020. Initially, the project was slated to start in June; however, due to shipping delays caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic, the [...]
On April 9, the BPU reported on the water main replacement project currently taking place on Main street. If you missed that write up, you could read that here. Due to the efficiency of crews in completing their work on South Main, it was announced on Monday, May 4, that BPU water crews would proceed [...]
The BPU Administrative Offices will be closed on Friday, May 8th for a scheduled holiday. The dropbox next to the drive-through will still be available.
Reliability has always been at the forefront of the McPherson BPU's concerns, and justifiably so. Any interruption of power is disruptive and costly for the customer. For benchmarking and accountability purposes, reliability metrics are tracked through the use of American Public Power Association’s eReliability Tracker software. Their report pulls data from outage information reported by [...]
