News & Events
Empowering Young Minds: Mid-Carolina’s 2024 Bright Ideas Grants Fuel Innovation in Local Classrooms
This October, Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative awarded over $19,000 in Bright Ideas grants to support 20 innovative teachers across 15 schools in our community. These grants help bring creative projects to life, fueling student engagement and providing new opportunities for hands-on learning. Thank you to each of these educators for inspiring creativity in the classroom and bringing new possibilities to life.
2024 Annual Golf Tournament Raises Funds, Awareness for Becky’s Place
Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative hosted its annual Charity Golf Tournament at Golden Hills Golf & Country Club on October 21, raising proceeds for Becky’s Place at Lexington Medical Center. The funds will provide wigs and prostheses to cancer patients experiencing the side effects of chemotherapy.
Storm Restoration Update
Mid-Carolina Electric is fully committed to restoring power to our members as safely and quickly as possible. We’re providing regular updates on our Facebook page, through emails to affected members, and will also keep this page updated as the situation evolves. Thank you for your continued patience and support as we work to restore service to all members.
Rising prices and how they impact our cooperative
A significant increase in our wholesale power cost beginning in January, coupled with new federal regulations and high inflation, will require that we make rate adjustments in the coming months. We’ve postponed this as long as possible and commit to making only the changes needed to counter rising cost pressures.
Making leaders among us
Each summer, Mid-Carolina Electric and other electric cooperatives around the state and nation send standout students to Washington for a once-in-a-lifetime experience, called the Washington Youth Tour. This year, Mid-Carolina Electric sponsored Katherine Pinkney of Dutch Fork High School in Irmo and Roddy Owen and Langston Barilla of Spring Hill High School in Chapin.
Mid-Carolina's Annual Meeting: 2024 Recap
In its eighty-fourth year, Mid-Carolina's Annual Meeting once again proved to be a cornerstone event for our cooperative and its members. This year, under the theme "Serving Our Members," we adapted to the changing times by hosting a drive-thru experience coupled with a livestreamed business meeting. The result? A great success, with 5,601 members registered between the two voting locations.
