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SECONEWS SECO Energy’s Marion County. That project, including the demolition service territory of the older adjacent substation, is almost complete. covers 2,100 square miles, which is about A new project in the works is the Inverness the size of Delaware. substation rebuild in Citrus County. The Inverness At year-end 2020, substation was reconstructed in 1982. Due to its we were serving age, the substation needed a complete rebuild. 216,477 homes and This substation serves just under 6,000 members. businesses in seven The rebuild includes a high-side ring bus and steel Central Florida counties. The structures that support the heavy, high voltage bulk of our members live in Citrus, Lake, Marion transmission line. The high-side ring bus will increase and Sumter Counties, with smaller service reliability for all members numbers of members in Hernando, served by the Inverness sub by Levy and Pasco Counties. creating redundancy through THE TOTAL VALUE OF looped service. OUR ELECTRIC FACILITIES 725914 Our cooperative purpose is to SYSTEMWIDE IS INCHING provide exceptional service to The Inverness substation CLOSER TO THE our members, co-workers and rebuild also improves reliability communities. That exceptional for members served by the $1 BILLION MARK. service is reflected in SECO Energy nearby Floral City substation as winning coveted J.D. Power awards well. Both substations are looped in 2015, 2016 and 2017 when our in with two separate Duke Energy satisfaction scores topped all utilities in the nation. transmission lines. Currently, members served by In 2020, we upheld our position as an American both substations experience an outage if even one Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) frontrunner in of the Duke transmission lines experiences a fault Florida and nationally with a score of 91. or operates. When the new ring bus is in place at the Inverness substation, members served by our We definitely have a strong reputation to uphold. Floral City sub will no longer experience an outage Another example of our exceptional service is a if the fault occurs between the transmission line meticulous inspection and maintenance schedule and the Inverness substation. Continued on page 2 that ensures day-to-day reliability while expanding an electric system that meets both current and INSIDE THIS ISSUE future members’ energy needs. In the July 2020 SECO News edition, I communicated about the Marion Oaks substation rebuild underway in
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