Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Today is Hurricane Helene prep day. Our crews began this morning with a briefing on the weather forecasts and our planned approach to handling outages should Helene cause any this evening or tomorrow. Afterward the crews ensured their trucks were stocked with necessary supplies and fueled up in order to respond to outages as quickly as possible. Our crews stand ready to assist our members should Helene cause issues locally. If our area is fortunate to avoid outages, crews will be ready to respond to harder hit areas. #thankalineman #CoopStrong #HurricaneHelene

On this day in 1939, the forefathers of this region officially incorporated Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative. Since its humble beginnings, CVEC has grown into a company that provides power to more than 18,500 meters, helped attract several industries that employ roughly 6,000 people, awarded $422,000 in scholarships and contributed even more to our area communities. CVEC has also created a broadband subsidiary, Coosa Valley Technologies, that provides fully-fiber service to more than 6,500 customers and purchased a company that provides affordable propane service with high levels of service. We look forward to what the next 85 years will bring. Whatever that might be, CVEC will remain committed to the seven cooperative principles that guide us: open and voluntary membership, democratic member control, members' economic participation, autonomy and independence; education, training and information, cooperation among cooperatives and concern for the community. 📸 : Bob Crisp Photography

At its core, line work is about sacrifice over self. It often requires long and odd hours in complex conditions few dare to brave. In May, four of our linemen exemplified that dedication and discipline more than 1,000 miles away in a foreign country — encountering new challenges along the way. NRECA International NRECA Alabama Rural Electric Association https://lnkd.in/efavEHKS

We're tremendously honored to partner with several other great cooperatives to further improve the quality of life of all Alabamians through great internet services. We believe our cooperative forefathers would be proud of how we carry on their vision. Thanks, NRECA, for highlighting this great project! https://lnkd.in/eti5cgQ8

Congratulations to Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. CEO Jonathan Cullimore and the entire co-op team for their dedication to member service excellence, which resulted in this high member satisfaction score! The American Customer Satisfaction Score (ACSI®) is a national industry measure of customer satisfaction. Getting an ACSI score is free to all Touchstone Energy distribution cooperatives, so if yours has not yet taken advantage of this valuable benefit of membership, please sign up at https://lnkd.in/gs88eTZg.

This cooperative is thankful that CoBank created its Sharing Success program so that we can invest even more into our local communities! Because of a matching grants, we were able to help send a local teen mentoring group attend a conference that develops life skills and contributes to STEM education! https://lnkd.in/g_6EzQfj

In our business, being prepared is of the utmost importance. It ensures we can respond to events appropriately and efficiently restore electric service to our consumers in a timely and safe manner.

We're always focused on building a better region. That's why we were glad to award scholarships to six area seniors this year. https://lnkd.in/eWaCaPeQ

We thank the Central Alabama Electric Cooperative team for their ingenuity in making sure educators across this state learn how to communicate the science of energy to their students! We were honored to join them in this effort and provide scholarships for five teachers to attend this workshop.

How do we restore power as quickly as possible following an outage? It takes a combination of good technology, planning and teamwork. https://lnkd.in/e6hj8Z9t