SMECO Raises Funds for Wounded Warriors
SMECO employees held two fund raising events and donated $36,470 to the Wounded Warrior Project.
SMECO Offers Scholarships
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) is offering four $1,500 college scholarships for the 2015-2016 school year. High school students are eligible to apply if they live with parents or guardians who are SMECO customer-members. Seniors must be enrolled or plan to enroll full-time in an accredited college, university, or trade school. The deadline for students to apply for college scholarships is Friday, March 6, 2015.
SMECO Donates CFLs to Food Bank
On Nov. 6, SMECO donated 30,000 CFLs to the Southern Maryland Food Bank. The CFLs will help Southern Maryland families facing economic hardship to reduce their energy costs so they can free up limited resources for other necessities.
SMECO Named Utility of the Year
The Solar Electric Power Assoc. named the SMECO the as Electric Cooperative Utility of the Year.
Southern Maryland Reliability Project Completed
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative completed its Southern Maryland Reliability Project on Nov. 3 when it energized the under-river portion of the 230,000-volt line that creates a transmission loop through the cooperative’s service area.
SMECO Alerts Customers to Avoid Scams
SMECO warns customer-members not to provide personal financial or electric account information to unauthorized callers.
SMECO Board of Directors Elected
1,338 members voted, electing Nancy W. Zinn of Calvert; Victor B. Allen of Charles; Daniel W. Dyer of Prince George’s; J. Douglas Frederick and Joseph V. Stone, Jr. of St. Mary’s.
SMECO Gets OK to Reduce Rates
The Maryland Public Service Commission also approved SMECO’s request to change how May and October are designated as summer and winter rate months.
SMECO Again Tops in Customer Satisfaction
Posted for SMECO Pax III Overall customer satisfaction with residential electric utilities increases year after year with improvements in corporate citizenship and outage communications, according to an industry study that again finds SMECO with top marks. The J.D. Power 2014 Electric Utility Residential Customer Satisfaction Study, now in its 16th year, measures customer satisfaction with electric utility companies by examining six factors: power quality and reliability; price; billing and payment; corporate citizenship; communications; and customer service. “Residential electric utilities have done a great job adding capabilities for proactive communications about outages and upping their corporate citizenship involvement. As a result,…
SMECO 75 Bike Ride Benefits Wounded Warrior Project
Profits from the Co-op’s annual bike ride are donated to the Wounded Warrior Project. Last year, SMECO employees raised $35,760 through the bike ride and a golf tournament.
