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LIVEWIRE MAY 2017 | VOLUME 68 ISSUE 5 | PUBLISHED FOR MEMBERS OF TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE Red Devil Lights Up Texhoma CEO VIEW


Plug into safety By Zac Perkins


This month, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on the importance of safety. May is Electrical Safety Month, and TCEC will be sharing safety tips and reminders throughout the month to help raise awareness about the dangers of electricity. We depend on electricity to power our lives, but accidents can and do happen. When these accidents involve electricity the results can cost lives.


TCEC’s concern for safety extends beyond our employees. We care deeply about the safety of our members, and this month, we encourage you to plug into safety. According to the Electrical Safety Foundation International, thousands of people in the U.S. are electrocuted as a result of electrical fires and accidents in their own homes.


To promote safety education in our local communities, we offer safety demonstrations to schools and businesses upon request.


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TCEC SERVICE TECHNICIAN DAVID SHEETS IS PICTURED ABOVE WITH HIS BUCKET TRUCK IN TEXHOMA. SHEETS HAS BEEN WITH TCEC FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS.


Looking toward the future, TCEC has invested in its electrical system in recent years and continues to do so today. The local electric cooperative has made improvements to the infrastructure of its system throughout the area it serves because some of it is 70 years old. By building innovative substations with newer technology, the cooperative is serving the needs of its members for years to come.


In Texhoma, the new Red Devil substation named for the school mascot, allowed the cooperative to move to a more standard voltage, increasing reliability, reducing line losses and other costs. The cooperative also converted the town by changing out transformers, insulators, wire and poles.


Members will see workers picking up old equipment from the conversion.


Each new transformer and pole will be QXPEHUHG IRU DFFXUDWH LGHQWLÀ FDWLRQ in the TCEC mapping system.


TCEC constantly evaluates its system for ways to improve and prepare to meet the ever-changing needs of the cooperative’s members. For more information about the cooperative visit www.tcec.coop. n


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