I credit this high mark to the Blue Ridge Energies employees who are committed to delivering high quality customer care. As chairman and chief executive officer for our subsidiary company, I can assure you that Blue Ridge Energies is a valuable asset for the cooperative. Like your cooperative, Blue Ridge Energies is working to benefit the communities it serves by fulfilling a mission of providing the highest quality, most competitively priced energy products and services to help meet the total energy needs of our customers. Carolina s unprecedented growth is providing new customers for the state s electric cooperatives. For many, it s their first experience doing business with a cooperative.
Many customers are surprised to learn they actually become part owners of the cooperative.
Electric cooperatives are also changing to meet the needs of their growing membership. To help explain benefits of electric cooperative membership, North Carolina electric cooperatives have launched Consumers First - The Power Behind North Carolina s Electric Cooperatives information program. If you are interested in this presentation or learning more about the power behind electric cooperatives, please contact Ren e Whitener, director of corporate communications, by calling your local district office or via e-mail. Blue Ridge Electric supports our colleges and universities. We hope you will too by voting YES for the Community College and University Bonds on November 7.