They help rural electric and telephone utilities strengthen their businesses with solutions uniquely suited to the needs of rural consumers. National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) - The NRTC represents the advanced telecommunications and information technology interests of more than 1000 utilities and affiliates in 46 states. Also they provide education and training programs for cooperative's directors, managers and employees. Congress and the Executive Branch and representation in legal and regulatory proceedings affecting electric service and the environment. The association provides national leadership and member assistance through legislative representation before the U. National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) - The NRECA is the service organization dedicated to representing the national interests of consumer-owned cooperative electric utilities and the consumers they serve. Department of Agriculture which provides loans to rural electric cooperatives.
Middle Georgia obtains most of its financing from RUS, a part of the U. Rural Utilities Service (RUS) - Formerly the Rural Electrification Administration (REA). This entity is a private, nonprofit, financing cooperative established by the nation's EMCs. The National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC) - Middle Georgia currently obtains financing funds from CFC.
Direction is received from a board of directors made up of one representative from each EMC. Services include producing publications for EMC members such as Georgia Magazine, acting as a liaison for the electric cooperatives with state and federal officials and providing training for employees of EMCs. Georgia Electric Membership Corporation (GEMC) - GEMC is a cooperative owned by Georgia's 42 EMCs. Our communities depend on us as a partner in their economic development initiatives, their civic leadership, and their commitment to local job creation. Today Slash Pine EMC has over 1900 miles of electric line serving 6,000 members, with an annual consumption in excess of 170,000,000 kilowatt hours.Īs a result of more than six decades of dedicated effort to improve the quality of life in rural South Georgia, Slash Pine EMC recognizes the value of the communities in which we serve that goes beyond our ability to simply provide reliable electric power at reasonable rates. The longest electric line was approximately 100 miles, beginning in Clinch County and running into Lanier County to serve 102 members. In February 1941, the average consumption for the entire project was 33 kilowatt hours. There were 290 members receiving electric power in Clinch, Lanier, and Ware Counties. The first electric lines were energized on December 8, 1940.
The Directors would meet weekly until Mawhen the first mortgage note to the Rural Electrification Administration was submitted in the amount of $152,000 for the purpose of furnishing electric energy to approximately 549 members. There was one dollar in the cooperative’s bank account. The first meeting of the corporation and directors of Slash Pine EMC was held in the main court room at the court house in the town of Homerville, Georgia at 3 p.m., February 10, 1940. The first original Charter was granted on December 1, 1940. The first bill paid was to The Clinch County News in the amount of $44 for legal advertising for the incorporation of Slash Pine Electric Membership Corporation. The nine men had each paid a five dollar membership fee. The original petition of incorporation was filed in Clinch County, Georgia on December 28, 1939. But the courage of nine men who would become Slash Pine EMC’s first Board of Directors believed in their dream of a better way of life for themselves and their neighbors.
The issue of acquiring the proper right of way for the construction of the electric lines through forest lands from which people depended on for the livelihood was also a contributing factor for failure. The main obstacle to Slash Pine’s success was too many miles of electric line for too few meters. The “Doubting Thomas’s”, Bankers, REA Officials and Politicians all agreed that Slash Pine EMC was just a dream that could never become reality. There was little cash money in the area, and many of the first memberships were paid for in farm produce. Our territory consisted of sparsely populated areas of deep South Georgia, including small family farms and pine trees. In the beginning, the service area was that area not wanted or needed by other rural electric cooperatives or private investment power utilities.
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