CEO’s Message: Back to the Classroom
The back-to-school season is always a time of anticipation. As kids, we might have had mixed feelings about returning to the classroom and our summer adventures ending. But there was still the excitement of getting new school supplies, seeing the friends we missed over the break and looking forward to all the things we’d learn in the coming year.
As adults, our lives may not fit that same schedule, but we never stop learning. It might be a conference we attend to pick up new skills for our job, reading up on history in our spare time, or just the lessons life teaches us as we continue to grow. Each day holds the prospect of something new to discover.
The same is true for your cooperative. We are constantly learning how to bring you better, more reliable electric service and finding new ways to make it simpler for you to do business with us. But it is also one of our core cooperative principles to help our consumer-members better understand how their electric system works.
That ongoing educational effort can be a challenge, especially in a time when the electric industry is changing so rapidly. But, as both owners and consumers of our electric system, it is important for each of us to have an understanding of how it works.
That’s why this month’s newsletter includes a couple of graphics that answer some of the questions we receive most often from inquiring minds. Where does our power come from? How does it travel from the source to your home? What exactly is all that equipment on a power pole?
While they don’t explain every aspect of our system, I encourage you to look at these graphics to better familiarize or reacquaint yourselves with how the power we rely on works. The better we understand our system, the better consumer- members we can be.
You can also read more about how Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative continues to support our local students in their studies. We were happy to be part of a camp for our area’s 4-H students and to once again join in Live Oak African Baptist Church’s effort to provide school supplies for kids getting ready to return to the classroom.
It’s all part of how we build a community that is better informed and better prepared for the challenges of tomorrow. As our kids head back to school, I know I’ll be thinking about what I have to learn and what information we as a cooperative have to share with you over the coming year. I encourage each of you to do the same so we can continue to grow and improve as a community.
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