{"id":38189,"date":"2023-10-01T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laneelectric.com\/?p=38189"},"modified":"2023-09-27T06:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:34:03","slug":"managers-message-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laneelectric.com\/managers-message-october-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Manager\u2019s Message \u2013 October 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dear Co-op Members:<\/strong><\/p>\n In honor of October being National Cooperative Month, I wanted to take the time to share what makes a cooperative unique. There are 3 kinds of utilities in the United States: investor-owned, publicly owned and member-owned\u2014known as cooperatives.<\/p>\n Investor-owned utilities maximize profits from customers to pay dividends to their stockholders. Public utilities are nonprofit, local government agencies aiming to provide service to communities in a way that recovers costs and earns additional returns to invest in new facilities. Member-owned cooperatives are private, nonprofit utility businesses owned by those they serve.<\/p>\n As a co-op, Lane Electric provides at-cost electric service and is governed by our elected board of directors. We also follow the 7 Cooperative Principles that are used by cooperatives around the world and were adopted by the International Cooperative Alliance in 1995.<\/p>\n Today, rural electric cooperatives like Lane Electric serve 42 million people, including 92% of persistent poverty counties. We exist to provide safe, reliable and affordable electricity that meets the needs of our member-owners, and we\u2019re proud to serve you.<\/p>\n Sincerely, Dear Co-op Members: In honor of October being National Cooperative Month, I wanted to take the time to share what makes a cooperative unique. There are 3 kinds of utilities in the United States: investor-owned, publicly owned and member-owned\u2014known as cooperatives. Investor-owned utilities maximize profits from customers to pay dividends to their stockholders. Public utilities […]\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laneelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laneelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laneelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laneelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laneelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/laneelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38191,"href":"https:\/\/laneelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38189\/revisions\/38191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laneelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laneelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laneelectric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nDebi Wilson<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"