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Daviess-Martin County REMC TOLL FREE
800-762-7362
GENERAL MANAGER
Dave Sutter
OFFICE HOURS
7:30 a.m.– 4 p.m., Monday-Friday STREET ADDRESS
12628 E 75 N, Loogootee, IN 47553 MAILING ADDRESS
P.O. Box 430, Loogootee, IN 47553 SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS
To report an outage or emergency, call 812-295-4200 or 800-7627362 day or night. BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dean Harrawood, PRESIDENT John Edwards, VICE PRESIDENT August Bauer, SECRETARY Michael E. Arvin, TREASURER Terry Chapman Dale Marchino Steve Streepy BILL PAYMENT OPTIONS
Online bill payment Budget billing Auto bank draft Drive-through window Night depository Credit card payment (VISA, Discover and MasterCard accepted) Pay-by-phone
Customer charge increase begins Sept. 1 Over the last few years, we have all noticed increases in the prices we pay for goods and services. DaviessMartin County REMC is not immune from these price increases on the things we DAVE SUTTER require to correctly operate your co-op. To help us pay for non-energy items, we set the monthly customer charge at a level to cover as much of our fixed costs as possible, whether any electricity is used or not. The customer charge helps pay for k Trucks, wire, poles, meters and other equipment needed to build and maintain the electric distribution system, k Labor to build, maintain and repair the distribution system; to clear and maintain our 1,400 miles of right-of-way; and other day-to-day business functions, and k Costs incurred for property taxes, insurance, interest expense, etc. Even if we do not sell a single kilowatthour (kWh), we still have these expenses to maintain your electric facilities and to operate the co-op.
Your board of directors closely monitors our costs and has made a decision to move ahead with a recommendation — which was originally made by our rate consultant back in 2013 — by approving an increase to the monthly customer charge. Please note that the last customer charge increase was way back in July 2001. Therefore, effective Sept. 1, 2015, the monthly customer charge will increase from the current rate of $32.89 to $35.35. As a not-for-profit electric cooperative, we attempt to structure our rates to reflect the costs of providing electric service to you — our members. This increase to the customer charge more closely reflects our actual cost of doing business. While electricity is still a great value compared to other commodities, we strive to keep electricity safe, reliable and affordable for our member-owners. We hope that you will understand the need for this increase, and we thank you for being our valued customer. DAVE SUTTER is general manager of Daviess-Martin County REMC.
MISSION STATEMENT
“Our mission is to provide dependable electricity and quality services for our members at reasonable cost.” Like us on Facebook www.Facebook.com/Daviess MartinCountyREMC
Third quarter wholesale power cost tracker change Reflected on bills received in August, Daviess-Martin County REMC members will see a change in the wholesale power tracker adjustment effective July 1, 2015. Hoosier Energy has changed the power tracker from $2.14 per 1,000 kWh used to $3.27 per 1,000 kWh used.
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ELECTRIC CONSUMER • JULY 2015 • ElectricConsumer.org