Member Information
Applying for Service
 A
membership application,
information card and valid form of identification are required to process an application for service. While completing this information in our office, our staff
will explain the billing process, provide directions on how to read your
meter, and answer any questions you may have about the Cooperative. You will
also receive a copy of our bylaws and the current issue of Cooperative Living
magazine.
 Service Installation Process
Any consumer requiring electrical service for new
construction, upgrading of their present electrical service, or security lighting,
should contact the Cooperative office.
Under normal circumstances, these types of services require the
consumer to meet with a Staking Engineer at the account location.
Annual Members Meeting
Once a year the
Cooperative holds a very important meeting. It's YOUR meeting because it
brings you up to date on co-op operations and other business. The Annual Members Meeting of Community Electric Cooperative is held
during the month of August at Windsor High School in Windsor, Virginia. Information on the meeting
is published in the August issue of Cooperative
Living magazine.
Capital Credits
 As a member consumer of an
electric cooperative, you and your fellow member consumers own the electric company that
serves you. One benefit of ownership is capital credits. Since the cooperative operates on a
not-for-profit basis, all of the margins are returned to our member-consumers
in the form of capital credits, an investment in each owner's name.
These capital credits form the bulk of the cooperative's equity and
is a measure of its financial strength. The funds are used as working capital to build the facilities needed to
serve you and future member- consumers. For answers to some frequently asked
questions regarding capital credits, click
here.
Each year, the Board
of Directors of Community Electric Cooperative determine the portion of
capital credits to be refunded to the membership. Keeping the Cooperative
informed of your current address assures your check will reach you when a
refund is made. Retired capital credits not claimed within 120 days of
publication in Cooperative Living or a publication of general circulation
become property of the cooperative.
Terms and Conditions of Service
The terms and
conditions of service under which electricity is supplied to its consumers by
Community Electric Cooperative is on file with the Virginia State Corporation
Commission. Copies
of the Terms and Conditions of Service are available upon request. Modifications may be made
from time to time as deemed necessary by the Cooperative's Board of Directors,
and approved by the Virginia State Corporation Commission.
Bylaws
The cooperative's revised bylaws
were approved by the board of directors on April 19, 2001. A copy of the bylaws is available upon request from the office of the Cooperative to member-consumers.
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