East River's Boyko elected President of Mid-West Electric Consumers Association

At the Mid-West Electric Consumers Association annual meeting on Dec. 8, Vernell Roberts (left) from Detroit Lakes Public Utilities in Minnesota was elected as Mid-West’s vice president, Patti Murphy from McCone Electric Cooperative in Montana was elected secretary/treasurer and Tom Boyko, East River Electric’s general manager and CEO, was elected as the association’s president. /East River Electric Power Cooperative

East River Electric Power Cooperative General Manager and CEO Tom Boyko was elected recently to serve as the next president of the Mid-West Electric Consumers Association board of directors. Boyko was elected during the organization’s annual meeting in Denver.

Boyko will serve a two-year term as board president. The Mid-West Electric Consumers Association, headquartered in Denver, promotes and protects the interests of federal power customers and their consumers across the Upper Midwest who purchase renewable hydropower from federal dams across the region. East River Electric is a customer of the Western Area Power Administration which markets federal hydropower.

Boyko, who has been East River’s CEO since 2014, has served as the vice president of the Mid-West Electric board for the past year, and previously served as the organization’s board secretary/treasurer. Mid-West Electric monitors rates and their cost components that the Western Area Power Administration charges for federal hydropower and works closely with Congress, the Army Corps of Engineers and the federal Bureau of Reclamation to promote the interests of the consumer-owned utilities who purchase hydropower that serves consumers across the Upper Midwest.