The co-op's Project Share program continues to receive considerable support from Clay customers. Project Share enables customers to add a little extra to their monthly electric bills to help less fortunate folks who are having trouble paying their power bills because of an emergency. Clay Electric has adopted some new technology in its ongoing efforts to reduce outages and stay on top of system maintenance. This camera detects temperature differences in objects. A piece of distribution equipment that is hotter than normal might indicate that something has happened to cause the electricity flow to be impeded.
Excessive heat can cause damage, and damaged equipment can lead to outages.
We see our world in the visible light spectrum. Objects appear brighter or darker relative to the amount of light energy they reflect. If you could switch your vision to the infrared spectrum, the world would look quite different. The warmer an object the more it stands out from the background. A refrigerator would be dark inside, expect for the tiny glowing light bulb.