Month: May 2025

OFFICIAL NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

Claiborne Electric’s drive-through Annual Membership Meeting will be held June 7, 2025.

The theme for this year’s meeting is “The Future has Never Been Brighter.” With our return to a cooperative business model in our new wholesale power contract with 1803 Electric Cooperative, we believe Claiborne Electric’s future is brighter than ever. This new partnership will benefit members and the Cooperative as we continue providing safe, reliable, and affordable electric service and meeting the needs of our members.

The Co-op will host the meeting between two sites – one at Claiborne Electric’s headquarters office (12525 Hwy. 9 in Homer), and one at D’Arbonne Woods Charter School (9560 Hwy. 33 in Farmerville). The meeting will run from 9 a.m. until noon in each location.

This year’s meeting will include an election for the Director who will represent Claiborne Electric’s District Two. Incumbent Willie Sensley, Jr. of Farmerville and Benjamin Walton of Bernice were each nominated and qualified to run for the District Two seat. The director for this district will be decided by a vote of all members attending the Annual Membership. Election ballots will be delivered by mail to members in May. They will be a perforated attachment on members’ Official Registration cards. Members are asked to have ballots filled out on arrival to help the registration process to flow smoothly.

All members who participate in the meeting will receive a gift from the Co-op and be entered for several cash and gift card prizes. Prizes will include:

• $5,000 cash grand prize
• $4,000 cash prize
• $3,000 cash prize
• $2,000 cash prize
• $1,000 cash prize
• 50 $100 gift cards

Member bills contain a section called “Current Service Detail” where charges for the billing period are listed as line items, then totaled on the bottom line.

The following explanations are an effort to help members better understand the components in this section.

For many years, the section of the bill listing charges contained a single line item called the Energy Charge. This line represented all costs associated with receiving power from Claiborne Electric. In an effort to increase transparency and line the billing language up with the tariffs approved by the Louisiana Public Service Commission, the Energy Charge has been broken into “Net Monthly Rate” and “Power Cost Adjustment” on bills.

Net Monthly Rate is the line item that includes the monthly service charge and the energy charge. The monthly service charge is the fixed monthly fee that covers the cost of being connected to Claiborne Electric’s system. This charge helps cover expenses such as electric metering, maintenance, billing, and payment processing – monthly functions that do not fluctuate with a member’s energy usage. The energy charge is the portion of a member’s bill that is associated with the expenses of operating the Cooperative each month. This charge is calculated per kilowatt-hour, and is a little more than three cents per kilowatt-hour.

The next line item, the Power Cost Adjustment, is based on the wholesale power contract between Claiborne electric and our power provider – 1803 Electric Cooperative. This line item is the bulk of a member’s cost for electricity. This charge represents the cost of generating power on a monthly basis, and is also calculated per kilowatt-hour. This charge varies slightly from month to month and is driven by the price of the fuels used to generate the electricity purchased by the co-op. The Power Cost Adjustment is typically around eight cents per kilowatt-hour.

Members who have questions about bills are urged to speak with one of our Member Service Representatives by calling our Homer office at (318)927-3504 or our Farmerville office at (318)368-3011.

We have developed the following graphic to help members understand the line items on their bills.