This is WHY we walk

HES/Energynet is proud to participate in Christian County Heart Walk 2019, the signature event for raising funds for the American Heart Association.  Team H.E.A.R.T. (Hopkinsville Electric Always Remembering Ty) is inspired by our coworker Ty Sweeney who lost his young life to a cardiac event. Perhaps now known as Ty Strong, we remember Ty as one of our strongest leaders in the company and loved by everyone. Ty didn’t know a stranger and felt it his calling to disciple all who he encountered.  “And, he lived up to this calling,” comments team captain and General Manager Jeff Hurd. “He truly was a good and faithful servant.” Ty loved working at HES, but had a profound love for his family and his music. He was an accomplished singer and song writer, husband to his sweetheart Sara Dunn Sweeney, proud father to Conley and Claudia, beloved son of Carole and Freddie Sweeney, and little brother to Tracia Sweeney Gray.

Ty’s medical emergency occurred on Christmas Eve 2014 and he later succumbed to natural causes that followed the event.  “He left an unfillable vacancy at HES, so we decided to honor his memory by remembering Ty with Team H.E.A.R.T.,” adds one of Ty’s employees and team H.E.A.R.T. member Michael West.

All here at HES/energynet hold many fond memories of Ty. He was our “biggest and best” of us all! We hope you, too, will be inspired to donate to Team H.E.A.R.T. “change” buckets (inside our lobby and drive-up window). Or give to any organized team thru-out Christian County.

After the recent loss of our dear friend and co-worker Steve Hayes who suffered a massive heart attack earlier in March, we will now be called TEAM H.E.A.R.T.S. – Hopkinsville Electric Always Remembering Ty & Steve.  Steve was one of our senior linemen, one of our hardest workers, and rarely a cut-up at work, but was a known jokester among loved ones that better knew him as “weezy.”  Steve was a private, yet prideful, and smart, yet never boasting, personality who set a high standard for all his co-workers to follow. He was an outdoorsman and loved worshiping with his New Work Fellowship family on Sunday mornings.  Words that describe Steve, “dependable, predictable, hard-working, kind,” tells Steve’s HES crew partner Daven Thomas.  Steve was dad to Alex Hayes and Sara Beth Robertson, brother to sisters Marsha Almon and Cheryl Jones, brother to James, Michael and Johnnie Hayes, faithful son to his favorite lady in his life Peggy Hayes, and granddaddy to two granddaughters.  Some still doubting the reality of our missing co-worker, Steve’s absence is fresh and heavy on the hearts of many.

Hopkinsville Electric System wants to remember all of our current and former employees, and their families, who have been affected by and suffered from heart related illness.

Click here to learn more about the American Heart Association and Christian County Heart Walk 2019 www.heart.org/christiancountywalk  #americanheartmonth

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According to the most recent information from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, for the month of September, 2018, Kentucky had the 7^th lowest average residential electric rate in the nation at 10.70 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh). The overall average residential electric rate for all 52 states was 13.01 cents per kWh. For this same month, the HES residential electric rate was 8.801 cents per kWh, which was 18% lower than the average residential electric rate in Kentucky and a whopping 32% lower than the average U.S. residential electric rate.

Hopkinsville Electric System (HES) is a municipal public power system. That means HES is a not-for-profit corporation whose primary purpose is to provide electricity to the residents and businesses of Hopkinsville. Because HES is not a publicly owned company, we are not beholden to shareholders, nor required to pay dividends. Our rates are set only high enough to maintain the fiscal health and operational stability of the utility for the residents of Hopkinsville.

HES is fortunate to purchase low-cost power from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). TVA is a federally-owned corporation which generates electricity using hydro-electric dams, coal, natural gas and nuclear plants, as well as from green energy sources such as solar, wind and biomass. TVA also serves as the regulator for HES, approving all policies and rates.

All in all, the residents of Hopkinsville enjoy some of the lowest electric rates in the nation. HES is proud of its legacy of keeping rates low for the benefit of our customers and works hard daily to continue this tradition.

For more detailed information about HES residential electric rates, and a comparison to the residential electric rates throughout the U.S., click here. For information on ways to reduce your electric usage and lower your bill, hover over the “Energy Efficiency” tab at the upper right portion of this website.