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January 12, 2010
SECO members grade their Co-op
Sumterville, FL – SECO members recently got to voice their opinions on their Co-op’s performance during 2009. A comprehensive customer satisfaction telephone survey was conducted in late November and December and the results have now been tabulated. The bottom line is that the members gave the Co-op a great report card. The survey, conducted annually on behalf of SECO by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, lets SECO officials know what is on their member/consumers’ minds and how well they think their utility is being run. Full story
January 5, 2010
SECO announces 2010 Scholarship Program
Seniors from Marion, Citrus, Lake, Sumter, Pasco, Levy & Hernando Counties Eligible
Sumterville, FL – Up to twelve deserving high school seniors from Sumter Electric Cooperative’s service territory will receive assistance from the Co-op this year to go on to college or a technical school following high school. The SECO Board of Trustees recently voted to continue the Co-op’s popular scholarship program which, over the years, has helped many deserving students attain higher learning when that might have been more difficult otherwise. The students chosen to receive SECO Scholarships in 2010 will each be the beneficiaries of a $2,500 grant to assist them in their pursuit of higher education. Full story...
SECO gives Lake County Schools $5,629
Tavares, FL – The Cooperative presented Lake County Public Schools with a capital credits check in the amount of $5,629.71 this month. SECO traditionally shares its excess margins with its customers each year around this time. The check represents Lake Public Schools’ share of capital credits distributed to all eligible SECO customers. (Pictured from left) Pete Miles, Energy Administration Manager of Lake County; Hank Bolduc, SECO Key Accounts Consultant; Rosanne Brandeburg, Board Member District 2; Dr. Susan Moxley, Superintendent of Lake County Schools, Cindy Barrow, Board Member District 3; Debbie Stivender, Board Member District 4; Kyleen Fischer, Board Member District 5; Larry Metz, Board Member District 1. Full Story...
 SECO gives Citrus Schools $1,627
Inverness, FL – Sumter Electric presented Citrus County Public Schools with a capital credits check in the amount of $1,627 this month... The check represents Citrus Public Schools’ share of capital credits distributed to all eligible SECO customers. (Pictured from right) SECO Key Accounts Consultant Brian Gibbs presents the check to Citrus County Schools Superintendent Sandra “Sam” Kimmel. Sharing of excess margins ... Full Story
 SECO gives Sumter Schools $2,158
Bushnell, FL – Sumter Electric presented Sumter County Public Schools with a capital credits check in the amount of $2,158 this month. The check represents Sumter Public Schools’ share of capital credits distributed to all eligible SECO customers... (Pictured from left) SECO Key Accounts Consultant Brian Gibbs presents the check to Citrus County Schools Superintendent Rick Shirley. Full story
SECO gives Marion Schools $7,911
Ocala, FL – The Cooperative presented Marion County Public Schools with a capital credits check in the amount of $7,911 this month. ... (Pictured from left) SECO Key Accounts Consultant Brian Gibbs presents the check to Marion County Schools Superintendent Jim Yancey... Full Story
SECO Installs Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs)
Sumterville, FL – Sumter Electric Cooperative (SECO) has taken steps to help insure that its employees, member/customers, vendors and guests are protected from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) when at SECO facilities. The Co-op has installed a total of 52 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) made by Cardiac Science of Bothwell, Washington in SECO facilities throughout its service territory. CEO, Jim Duncan, said, “According to the American Heart Association, 50 percent of the 1,000 North Americans who die from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) every day have no prior knowledge that they had heart disease ... Full Story
SECO gives $1.4 million back to members in Capital Credits
Sumterville, FL – One of the great benefits of being a member/customer of a not-for-profit cooperative like SECO Energy is that co-op customers get to share in any excess margins the business might have at the end of each year. That sharing comes in the form of capital credits and these credits are applied to customer electric statements in November. While SECO faces many of the same economic challenges our members face, the Co-op does remain in stable financial condition. That being the case, the Board of Trustees has determined that SECO members will get $1.4 million in capital credits returned to them in November. Over the last fourteen years SECO has given back $16 million to its customers... continue reading...
SECO customer service trailer a hit with members
Sumterville, FL – Sumter Electric Cooperative (SECO) in central Florida has unveiled its latest innovation aimed at helping members control their own energy costs. That innovation is a specially designed trailer for community outreach and it was brought to a popular Walmart shopping center for its public debut. It gave SECO members an opportunity to talk to energy specialists about how to save energy in the home and see a variety of displays related to that. Full story...
SECO's Jim Duncan warns of Carbon Tax
Addresses Sumter Chamber of Commerce
Wildwood, FL — SECO Energy CEO Jim Duncan brought members of the Sumter County Chamber of Commerce up to speed with regard to energy policy being formulated at the federal level that could have a crushing effect on consumers of electricity and other goods. As he did in his keynote address before 3,500 people at SECO’s annual meeting in March, he told the business leaders that comprise the Sumter Chamber that he believes the nation is “on a collision course that will result in rapidly escalating electric rates and diminishing electric system reliability.” In his speech before the Chamber he said, “The driving forces on this collision course are man-made climate-change proponents and a government that sees climate-change legislation as a huge revenue opportunity – a/k/a taxes.” Full story
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Co-op members express their concerns
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