2009 Annual Report
Providing reliable electric service at a competitive price has been our mission since the late 1930s, as we’ve been reminding ourselves, and you, this year at the district membership meetings. With our 75th anniversary coming up in March 2012, the history of HomeWorks Tri-County Electric Cooperative has been on our minds.
President Franklin Roosevelt got us started by signing the Rural Electrification Act in 1935, hoping to ensure every family in America had the quality of life made possible by access to affordable electricity. When the big power companies passed on the opportunity to move into rural areas, farmers got together to build their own power companies.
We found power supply from hydros, small towns, and even other farmers who owned generators with excess capacity, before building our own generators, and finally joining with other electric cooperatives to form our own generation and transmission cooperative.
It’s interesting, studying our history, because we can see how issues, whether technical or political, keep repeating themselves over the years.
But we can’t focus on our past to the point that we neglect our future. Technology, on your side of the meter and ours, is changing our jobs at a fast pace. And the political winds in Lansing and Washington, D.C., could power a wind farm - if we could just harness the shifting winds.
We not only have to keep up, we must stay ahead of the trends and issues if we’re going to provide the service you need.
Throughout our history, you’ve shown that you trust us to get the job done, and we don’t take that trust lightly. You elect a board of directors and rely on them to set the policies that guide our staff in operating the cooperative.
You turn out in ever-increasing numbers for the district meetings, and the conversations we hold at those meetings also help us set Tri-County’s priorities.
Which always begin and end with: Providing reliable electric power at competitive prices.
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2009 Annual Report
