2001 Year In Review

January/February

• Due to escalating fuel cost, DEMCO customers pay some of the lowest electric rates in Louisiana and in some areas pay almost half as much as customers who have other electric service.

March/April

• DEMCO introduces online bill payment via the DEMCO website, www.demco.org.
• DEMCO customers still enjoy electric rates almost 40% lower than other electric service providers.

May/June

• DEMCO Board of Directors re-elects its officers: Richard W. Sitman re-elected to serve as board president, Randy Lorio re-elected to serve as vice-president and Leslie Falks re-elected to serve as secretary/treasurer.
• Tropical Storm Allison hits parts of Louisiana, causing heavy rains and flooding in many areas.

July/August

• DEMCO subsidiary The Dixie Business Center dedicates 19,000 square feet of new warehousing and light manufacturing space. With this addition, the small business incubator now has over 50,000 total square feet of office space suitable for a variety of business uses.

September/October

• 2001 vegetation management program reviewed and deemed a success as cleaner rights-of-way lead to an increase in reliability through an overall reduction in outages and outage times.

November/December

• Ascension Parish customer service office is renovated to include a larger lobby area and drive-thru service.
• East Feliciana office is relocated to a new facility to better serve customers in that growing community.