Quality time with our members

We reg­is­tered 3,208 mem­bers in atten­dance at our 76th Annu­al Meet­ing May 13. Thanks to every­one who took the time to attend. The ques­tions and com­ments folks had while I vis­it­ed with them show how engaged our mem­bers are in their co-op. It’s always a plea­sure to spend qual­i­ty time with you!

In case you could­n’t be there, let me recap a few of the high­lights.

• I had the plea­sure to intro­duce and con­grat­u­late our 2017 Wash­ing­ton Youth Tour del­e­gates. This month, Eri­ca Daly from Fort Mill High School and Jae Alexan­dra LeBrec from Clover High School will join more than 1,700 of Amer­i­ca’s best and bright­est stu­dents for a week in our nation’s cap­i­tal. We are proud of their accom­plish­ments and know they will rep­re­sent us well.

 

• I also con­grat­u­lat­ed our employ­ees for win­ning a statewide safe­ty con­test again. They have won it eight out of the last 15 years. I appre­ci­ate their work and ded­i­ca­tion.

 

• I report­ed YEC returned $1.3 mil­lion, the largest amount of cap­i­tal cred­its in our his­to­ry, to our mem­bers in May. And, our ser­vice reli­a­bil­i­ty improved even more in 2016.

 

• I announced that a com­pre­hen­sive fea­si­bil­i­ty study is near com­ple­tion, and your Board of Trustees will con­sid­er test­ing a pilot project which will offer high-speed inter­net to rur­al parts of our ser­vice area; a deci­sion will be announced soon. And, due to your increased inter­est in Com­mu­ni­ty Solar, YEC will con­struct anoth­er Com­mu­ni­ty Solar farm, pos­si­bly near North­west­ern High School. Look for updates on these projects in future issues of your South Car­oli­na Liv­ing mag­a­zine.

 

• We intro­duced our new Beat the Peak pro­gram, a free and vol­un­tary effort to help con­trol ener­gy costs for all coop­er­a­tive mem­bers. If you haven’t signed up yet, we encour­age you to vis­it EnergySmartSC.org and do so today.

Thanks again to those who attend­ed. If you could­n’t be there, we hope to see you next May.