Malden Board of Public Works is one of five municipalities that make up the ArkMo Electrical Energy Pool. These five municipalities have their electrical resources combined and are efficiently scheduled by one scheduling agent. These contracts save the BPW thousands of dollars annually, which results in lower electric rates for the citizens of Malden, Missouri.

Currently the BPW has power purchase contracts with the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, and additionally purchases energy from the Southwest Power Administration, a division of the Department of Energy.

Recently the BPW purchased into a Plum Point Power Project, which is a 660-megawatt coal generation power plant. This power plant should be operational fall of 2010. The energy from this plant will serve the needs of the City of Malden for the next 40 years.
The Board of Public Works receives its energy across Southwest Power Administration transmission system at 69,000 v. We have three transmission/distribution substations in which voltage is reduced to 2400 v for distribution over more than 60 miles of primary circuitry throughout Malden, Missouri.

The Board of Public Works has started reconductoring the electrical system of the City of Malden. The electrical system is in dire need of updating. The system was weak prior the ice storm of 2009,  but the effects of the storm has left the system unreliable and vulnerable to future storms. The cost of the reconductoring will be offset by 75 percent reimbursement from FEMA and 10 percent reimbursement from the State of Missouri. This gives the City of Malden the opportunity to rebuild its system without great hardship on the rate payers of the City of Malden.

The Board of Public Works' hourly system peak of 13 megawatts is supported by eight megawatt contract from the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, five megawatts from S.W.P.A. and 16 megawatts of emergency backup generation from the Malden Municipal Power Plant.