You’re the MVP

For near­ly ten years, York Elec­tric has been able to keep rates flat for mem­bers. We’ve worked hard to invest wise­ly in the future of your coop­er­a­tive, main­tain­ing finan­cial sta­bil­i­ty so that out­side fac­tors don’t impact your month­ly rates. We con­sid­er this suc­cess a joint effort because you’ve also played an inte­gral role in keep­ing pow­er afford­able with pro­grams like Beat The Peak.

Since we start­ed Beat The Peak in 2018, South Car­oli­na coop­er­a­tive mem­bers have col­lec­tive­ly helped their co-ops save $618,195 in pow­er costs. This effort not only helps reduce the need to build addi­tion­al pow­er gen­er­a­tion facil­i­ties, but also helps main­tain low rates. When elec­tric­i­ty’s demand is the high­est, or when the most peo­ple are using the most pow­er, gen­er­a­tion of elec­tric­i­ty costs more. Think about dri­ving your car. Putting your car in motion from a stop­light or going uphill requires more pow­er from your engine, which uses more gas. Help­ing your co-op off­set the pre­dict­ed peak times is like coast­ing down­hill, increas­ing your miles per gal­lon and sav­ing your co-op mon­ey. Just by sim­ply receiv­ing an alert when YEC pre­dicts a peak in demand to occur and off­set­ting your pow­er use by adjust­ing your ther­mo­stat or wait­ing to do house­hold chores real­ly makes a dif­fer­ence.

Choose When You Use Electricity

 
To date, York Elec­tric has 6,535 mem­bers signed up for Beat The Peak alerts, result­ing in an over­all sav­ings of $105,325 just for our co-op. The more mem­bers who are con­scious­ly shift­ing their elec­tric use, the more impact we can have on keep­ing pow­er costs low. Sim­i­lar­ly, we have 292 mem­bers par­tic­i­pat­ing in our new smart ther­mo­stat pro­gram. As an addi­tion to the Beat The Peak pro­gram, mem­bers who sign up and install an ecobee smart ther­mo­stat will auto­mat­i­cal­ly have their ther­mo­stat adjust­ed to accom­mo­date for pre­dict­ed peak ener­gy use times. The best part is, we auto­mat­i­cal­ly pre-cool your house in the sum­mer and pre-warm your house in the win­ter so that you don’t feel any dis­com­fort.

With the help of tech­nol­o­gy, we’re look­ing out for you and keep­ing your bot­tom line a pri­or­i­ty. Sign up for peak alerts at BeatthePeak.com and pur­chase a smart ther­mo­stat from YEC here. Togeth­er, we can be the win­ning team. Thanks for being the most valu­able play­ers and hold­ing down pow­er costs.

Sin­cere­ly,

Paul Basha
Pres­i­dent and Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer

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York Electric Cooperative cancels Annual Meeting

As the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic con­tin­ues, the York Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive Board of Direc­tors and man­age­ment team has decid­ed to can­cel the 2020 Annu­al Meet­ing of Mem­bers. Please save the date for our 2021 Annu­al Meet­ing on Sat­ur­day, May 8.

To con­tin­ue pri­or­i­tiz­ing the health and safe­ty of our mem­bers and employ­ees, York Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive also will not host the fol­low­ing com­mu­ni­ty events:

• Mem­ber Appre­ci­a­tion Shred Day
• Mem­ber Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee Meet­ing

Addi­tion­al­ly, we will mod­i­fy our annu­al Vet­er­ans Day Cel­e­bra­tion on Tues­day, Nov. 11, 2020. Look for details regard­ing this event in the November/December edi­tion of South Car­oli­na Liv­ing mag­a­zine.