Recognizing that teachers often have the right perspective to shape their students’ classroom experiences, Broad River Electric Cooperative and our Charities Board offer Bright Ideas Educator Grants to local teachers to help make their visions a reality. In October, Broad […]
Education
Ready for an experience you won’t forget?
Your co-op has two amazing trips planned this summer. Juniors: Apply for the Washington Youth Tour. Sophomores: Apply for the Cooperative Youth Summit. Juniors: Experience Washington, D.C., with hundreds of students from across South Carolina and the country, meeting lawmakers […]
School supplies giveaway
Broad River Electric is already gearing up to send kids back to school this month. To help our members and their families prepare, the cooperative’s School Supply Project is providing students from across our service area with basic school needs […]
Education grants for bright ideas: Apply online by July 31, 2022
We know there are a lot of creative and innovative teachers in our local schools. Unfortunately, they don’t always have the funding they need to carry out their best-laid plans in the classroom. Blacksburg High students Kara Martin and Adam […]
10 Energy Conservation Ideas
Energy conservation is something that you can put into practice right now. Here are some you can get started with today. Turn your refridgerator down. Refridgerators account for as much as 13.7% of the total household energy use. To increase […]
Idle Electronics Can Cause Your Utility Bills to Remain High
According to a Consumer Electronics Association study, the average American household has 28 electronic products that must use electricity until they are charged enough for use, or remain plugged in until ready for use. How many do you think your […]
Children’s Book Challenge: New Energy Technologies
South Carolina’s electric cooperatives want students across the state to become book authors. Fourth and fifth-grade students from South Carolina are invited to write and illustrate a children’s book focused on new technologies in the energy industry such as solar […]
Broad River Electric provides 3,000 book bags
Students at 40 local elementary schools, organizations benefit Broad River Electric Charities has provided 3,000 book bags to elementary students across the upstate of South Carolina. Over 40 schools and community centers in Spartanburg, Union, and Cherokee Counties received book […]
Broad River employees participate in school supply drive
This summer, Broad River Electric employees participated in a United Way’s Back to School Supply Drive, donating book bags, notebooks, and other items to help local students. Members of the cooperative staff dropped off the supplies at the local United […]
Summiters learn about co-ops and energy
Two local rising seniors were among fifty-five high school students from across the state that visited Columbia in July and saw up close how co-ops are preparing for the future. As selected participants of The Cooperative Youth Summit, Macey Hollman […]