{"id":41,"date":"2020-08-05T09:46:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2021-elevai\/?p=41"},"modified":"2020-08-05T09:46:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:46:50","slug":"internship-with-tri-county-emc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2021-elevai\/2020\/08\/05\/internship-with-tri-county-emc\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship with Tri-County EMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 1<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Met with the employee in charge of each department of Tri-County<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facts of Tri-County<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Service in 7 counties<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">About 24,000 members<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">43 employees<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">40 work vehicles<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maintain 2,625 miles of lines<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tri-County office has fully functional kitchen, rooms to sleep, workout rooms in case there is a need for employees to stay an extended period of time in case of a storm.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of the year money left over goes back to members (around $2 million)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2019 revenue was $58 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">$42.5 million paid for power<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1 of 26 Cooperatives in state<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lowest electric rates in the state<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Communications and Customer Service<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Operation Roundup<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Financially help a person in need.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">High School NC Electric Cooperatives Youth Tour<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1 week trip to D.C. for free each year<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle school sports camp scholarship<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 2<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Accounting<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every department is connected to accounting<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IT<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Focus on breach prevention<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Setting up backups to prevent down time<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 3<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Statewide Virtual Day<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">7 cooperative principles<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voluntary &amp; open membership<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Democratic member control<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Members\u2019 economic participation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Autonomy &amp; independence<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Education training &amp; information<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cooperation among cooperatives<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Concern for community<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TEMA sales<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2019 $124,425,358<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2020 ~$537,000 in sales per business day<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Florence hurricane was busiest storm for supplies from TEMA<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Must manage material flow to all cooperatives in preparation for hurricanes so there aren\u2019t cooperatives without supplies because a few have a majority of supplies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weather is the greatest driver of variability in electricity use.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greatest amount of electricity is used during summer.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 4 \u00a0 \u00a0 Member Services<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assistance with transferring, connecting, and disconnecting accounts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Working with members who need payment extensions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Helping customers receive the capital credits of deceased family members.\u00a0 The longer a person is a member and the larger their electric bills are the more capital credits they accrue.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the smart meters, electricity can be turned on or off from the office without sending anyone out to a location<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 5\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Front desk<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Answer phones and drive thru<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Take payments via phone, mail, drive thru<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 6<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Engineering<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Set up paperwork for new connections and service calls.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Look at setup of substations, solar farms, biodigesters<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 7<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Substation tour<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 8<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lineman Day<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Work in bucket on new connection<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trenching<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pulling underground lines<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Putting in a meter for new service<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 9<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Right of way crew<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trimming trees<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mulching limbs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 10<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Filming day<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Changing out an insulator on a pole in bucket<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Putting on an elbow for underground wire<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mulching tree limbs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 11<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Billing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day 12<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warehouse<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pulling parts for jobs for the next day<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Organizing supplies with the forklift<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 Met with the employee in charge of each department of Tri-County Facts of Tri-County Service in 7 counties About 24,000 members 43 employees 40 work vehicles Maintain 2,625 miles of lines Tri-County office has fully functional kitchen, rooms to sleep, workout rooms in case there is a need for employees to stay an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2021-elevai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2021-elevai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2021-elevai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2021-elevai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2021-elevai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2021-elevai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2021-elevai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2021-elevai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2021-elevai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2021-elevai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}