SawneeEMC (SEMC; founded as Forsyth CountyEMC) is an electrical generation and transmission cooperative founded in July 1938 and based in Cumming, Georgia. , SawneeEMC is the third-largest electric co-op in Georgia and the eighth-largest in the United States; it operates of power lines in seven counties: Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, and Lumpkin. Sawnee is a member of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and Touchstone Energy.
, Michael Goodroe is the president and CEO of SawneeEMC.
History After the Rural Electrification Administration was created in 1935, the Forsyth County Electric Membership Corporation was incorporated on July16, 1938, and the co-op began providing electricity to about 750homes via of power lines on June22, 1939. Forsyth CountyEMC changed its name to SawneeEMC in August1950, taking its name from nearby Sawnee Mountain. In 1974, SawneeEMC was one of the dozens of Georgia-based EMCs that founded Oglethorpe Power, and Sawnee was similarly a founding member of the renewables-focused Green PowerEMC in 2001.
Domain name incident In May2024, Sawnee advised customers to switch from www.sawnee.com to www.sawnee.coop following a cyber security incident.
Board of directors Sawnee EMC's board of directors is composed of nine elected members:
NameDistrict and positionDistrict 2District 3District 4; vice-chairmanDistrict 6; chairmanDistrict 9District 7District 8District 5District 1; secretary-treasurer
Foundation Sawnee EMC operates the Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation, which donates to schools and charities in its service area. Since 2003, the foundation has given out $3.8 million.
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