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October is National Co-op Month
GCEC is proud to be your trusted energy partner Unlike other utilities that are owned by investors and run for profit, Gulf Coast Electric Cooperative is driven by a set of principles we inherited. The seeds of the Seven Cooperative…
Learning About Energy Is Empowering
More than 150 teachers from northwest Florida and Alabama became students at the Empower Energy Education Workshop in June. Empower was co-hosted by PowerSouth, the National Energy Education Development and area cooperatives, including Gulf Coast Electric Cooperative. The Empower Energy…
President’s Message – September 2022
The Power of Preparation September is National Preparedness Month, so I want to remind our members about the power of preparation. While you don’t have to reach doomsday prepper levels of preparedness, there are several practical steps you can take…
Don’t Become a Victim of Scams
Simple precautions can save you money and heartache By Franklin Thurlow In 2021, the Federal Trade Commission received 5.7 million consumer incident reports. About half of those were identified as fraud and a quarter as identity theft. Those statistics don’t…
An Unforgettable Week
Imagine a chance to visit our nation’s capital for one week, meet with hundreds of students from across the United States, and visit with Florida’s senators and congressional representatives. Two local students were selected to experience this once-in-a-lifetime trip in…
Presentations Teach Electrical Safety
Gulf Coast Electric Cooperative took its live line safety demonstration trailer to Bay Haven Charter Academy’s summer camp and Career and Community Day at Stone Mill Creek Fire Department hosted by Gulf County Corrections. The trailer—which Gulf Coast Electric Cooperative…
Lending a Helping Hand
GCEC employees come together to help one of their own By Kristin Douglas It’s no secret cooperatives have a strong commitment to their communities. In fact, Concern for Community is one of the Seven Cooperative Principles. Commitment to Community is…
A Plan For Carbon Reduction Must Make Sense
We’ve always heard, “You need a plan to get anything done.” That is taught in all business schools and recognized by people who don’t manage anything other than their own lives. My favorite quote about “plans is from the noted…
Preventing Costly Cooper Theft
Strange things start happening when the world price of copper skyrockets to record levels as it did this year. A Nevada electric cooperative lost $5,000 worth of copper wire in a theft at a substation. Copper pilfered from a cooperative…
President’s Message – August 2022
My Fellow Members Effective June 30, 2022, Gulf Coast Electric Cooperative restructured its rates. As your hometown electric cooperative, owned by the members we serve, we understand the impact of a rate adjustment on your households, which is why we…