Charles Fendley Reelected GA Transmission Corp Board Chairman - Pickens fetchyournews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fetchyournews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Share this article
Share this article
TUCKER, Ga., April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Dustin Zubke has been selected to serve as senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) of Georgia Transmission Corp. The position was vacated by Barbara Hampton following her promotion to president and CEO earlier this year.
Dustin Zubke Named Georgia Transmission Corp. Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Zubke joins the Tucker-based electric transmission cooperative after serving as CFO of East River Electric Power Cooperative in Madison, South Dakota. The generation and transmission cooperative delivers power to 25 member systems, serving consumers throughout eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota. Prior to his time at East River, Zubke held various positions of increasing responsibility at CoBank, one of the largest private providers of credit to the U.S. rural economy. The cooperative bank provides financial services to agribusiness, rural infrastructure and Farm Cr
High-speed broadband coming to rural areas of Fayette, Coweta counties
80,000 EMC members to get access across 18 counties in mid-Georgia
Governor Brian Kemp says that Central Georgia EMC (Jackson, GA) and Southern Rivers Energy (Barnesville, GA) will form a new partnership with Conexon to provide high-speed internet to 80,000 homes and businesses in 18 Middle Georgia counties: Bibb, Butts, Clayton, Coweta, Crawford, Fayette, Henry, Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Meriwether, Monroe, Morgan, Newton, Pike, Putnam, Spalding, and Upson.
Central Georgia EMC has customers in Fayette County, while Southern Rivers Energy has customers in Coweta County.
The partnership includes a capital investment of more than $210 million overall. Central Georgia EMC (CGEMC) will invest $135 million, Southern Rivers Energy (SRE) will invest $53 million, and Conexon will contribute $21.5 million. Monroe County has also committed $1.3 million in local funds to incentivize the EMCs to start their projects in Mo
Posted on 8732
Efforts to provide broadband in unserved areas of Georgia took another step forward today following a Public Service Commission (PSC) decision which determines the fee paid by cable companies to attach wires and cables to electric membership cooperative (EMC) utility poles.
In today’s administrative session, the Commission unanimously approved a motion requiring EMCs to lower the pole attachment rate for new attachments in areas of the state that are unserved by broadband to $1, per pole, per year, for six years. This financial incentive, called the
One Buck Deal, will be given to any qualified broadband provider that will agree to deliver new high-speed internet service in an area that is determined to be “unserved” by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Broadband Initiative Maps.