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Home about us obtaining service view your account SVECares products & services economic development your directors your local office commercial & industry other links Questions? E-mail us. Please provide us  with your name and  phone number.		Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative was incorporated on July 31, 1939, by a group of community leaders who could foresee the benefits of an electric utility owned by and responsive to the people who were to receive electricity from it. The incorporators took the Indian name for the river running through the area as the unique identification of their new utility, and for over 70 years the Cooperative has been the only business in the area to use this spelling. The primary purpose for founding the Cooperative was to enable the rural people in the Valley to secure electricity to improve their way of life and standard of living. Local townspeople who already enjoyed the benefits of electricity knew that the economic future for everyone would be improved with electricity available to all. The cooperative organization enabled the new business to borrow money from the Rural Electrification Administration, one of the special federal agencies created during the 1930’s to improve the national economy and particularly the rural economy. In 1940, after one year of operation, Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative served 2,142 members. Now seventy years later, the cooperative is providing electrical service to over 35,000 different homes and businesses. For more information about SVEC click here