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News Southwest Rural Electric Association October 2015


Because SWRE is an electric cooperative, it isn’t like other traditional utility companies. It is not owned by corporate investors or a municipal government, but by its members – the people that it serves. It’s a unique and wonderful business model.


How did SWRE and other electric cooperatives come to be? In


towns


the 1930s most cities and had


electrical generation


plants, but there was no electricity on farms. No electric company would consider providing service to farm families because the cost of building and maintaining miles of power lines to serve limited numbers of accounts was prohibitive.


So... In 1935 President Franklin Roosevelt issued a presidential proclamation creating the Rural Electrification Administration – the REA. It provided federal loan money to groups of


would band together to create their own


electric


rural residents who companies


cooperatives – to build power lines and deliver electricity.


The co-op system worked in 1937 when SWRE was created, and it still works today!


All electric cooperatives are


guided by seven basic principles, and all seek to deliver power to members at the best possible price with the best possible service. All are non-profit and they all afford members a say in how the company is operated.


– CO-OPS ARE GUIDED BY 7 PRINCIPLES


1. Voluntary and Open Membership 2. Democratic Member Control 3. Members’ Economic Participation 4. Autonomy and Independence 5. Education Training and Information 6. Cooperation Among Cooperatives 7. Concern for Community


ELECTRIC CO-OPS ARE Owned by the


consumers they serve


Private, independent and not-for-profit


Created to provide at-cost electric service


Governed by a board of directors elected from


and by membership Volume 62


Safety, Service, Satisfaction... One Member at a Time! Number 10


October is National Co-op Month The


SWRE


Cooperative Advantage


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