CEO’s Message: Building a Plan for Tomorrow
It is no secret that keeping the lights on takes a lot of work every day. Everyone at Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative is dedicated to that mission, from our member service representatives answering questions to the crews maintaining lines and clearing vegetation.
But keeping more than 4,000 miles of line healthy and in working order requires more than tackling outages as they come our way. It also takes foresight to anticipate the challenges ahead. That might mean investing in technology to make our system more reliable and efficient for years to come or preparing to distribute even more power as our community grows.
That’s why SVEC establishes construction work plans that look three years into the future. By modeling how our system will look in the years ahead, we can design an informed roadmap for what projects our cooperative will need to start working on now to remain ready when challenges arise.
In this newsletter, you can read more about our current plan and some of the goals we are working toward. SVEC is currently in year two of our three-year plan. Even with the setbacks of last year’s storms, we are making strong progress toward meeting goals to expand service, make our system more efficient, and improve the reliability of the service you depend on.
With so many unavoidable surprises, having these plans in place helps SVEC avoid unnecessary ones and keep the long-term cost of these projects manageable for our consumer-members. I hope you will all take a look to see what the next two years hold for our construction teams.
You can also find some photos of our leadership brushing shoulders with the governor at this year’s Legislative Cookout for Florida electric cooperatives, as well as coverage of the blanket drive for United Way of Suwannee Valley’s Homeless Coalition. I hope you will also join us in congratulating this year’s Youth Tour delegates, Lydia Gunter and Kambry Mosley, who will be representing SVEC in Washington, D.C., this summer.
Finally, mark your calendars for a couple of important safety events SVEC will be participating in next month. We will be joining Suwannee County Emergency Management’s Hurricane Preparedness Event on May 7 and hosting a storm safety presentation on May 19. Find more information on the next page, and be sure to join us to make sure you’re ready when hurricane season arrives.
Whether it is for our household or our entire community, having a plan in place keeps us from being caught flat-footed when the unexpected arrives. As an SVEC consumer-member, you can rest assured that we are always prepared, even when the strong winds start to blow. Until next month, it is always our privilege to serve you.
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