History of Flint Energies

1937

- April 23 – Incorporated as Taylor County EMC
- September 8 – First 20 miles of line energized to serve 40 families

1938

December 31 – 199 homes and 233 public buildings and businesses were receiving service

1940

First Reynolds office constructed

1941

January 30 – Changed name to Flint EMC

1949

First Warner Robins office opens

1960

New Reynolds headquarters office built

1963

Began answering phones 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

1968

First Perry office opens

1971

New Warner Robins office and warehouse built

1979

SCADA used for the first time

1981

Introduces load management program

1990

Upatoi office opens

1991

Service Center office opens

1995

Give Us An A program begins

1998

- First Energy Store opens
- Begins Fort Benning operations
- Offers green power for the first time
- Provides 24 hour automated outage reporting to members

2000

- New Perry office opens on Perry Parkway
- Adds Fort Benning office and warehouse

2001

Operation Round Up program begins

2005

- Awards our one-millionth dollar through Operation Round Up
- Starts the first-ever Line Technician Co-op Scholarship Program
- Becomes the first electric co-op to operate our entire service fleet on biodiesel and ethanol fuel blends
- Re-introduces load management program

2006

- First Spirit of Flint award presented
- First Bright Ideas grants awarded

2007

Inc. Magazine names Flint Energies to its list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies.

2008

- Elberta Road office closes
- New Member Center office opens on Russell Parkway in Warner Robins
- Flint becomes one of the nation’s first rural electric cooperatives to support job creation through USDA REDL&G program with a $9M loan for Arriscraft
- Flint offers remote payment stations for the first time

2009

- Installs bird nest boxes to help save the endangered southeastern American kestrel
- Georgia Trend Magazine names Flint Energies one of the 10 Best Places to Work in Georgia

2010

- Begins receiving electricity from landfill gas generation project at Houston County landfill
- Awarded Smart Grid Demonstration grant funds from the Department of Energy

2012

- Celebrates the Co-op’s 75th Anniversary
- Awards our three-millionth dollar through Operation Round Up
- Serves more than 84,400 meters through 6,406 miles of line and 50 substations
- Begins Pay Your Way prepaid electricity program
- Offers kiosk payment option for the first time
- Appliance Center permanently closes

2013

- Museum of Aviation begins receiving 100% green energy
- Touchstone Energy celebrates 15th anniversary
- Flint is a major proponent of the new Georgia Grown marketing initiative
- Fort Benning fiber network is completed

2014

Washington Youth Tour celebrates 50 years

2015

- Flint begins performing Sudden Impacts
- Flint begins a college scholarship program

2016

- Holds open house for newly built headquarters and Reynolds Operations Center
- Begins Operation Round Up Plus
- Installs solar panel at Thomson Middle School as part of SunPower for Schools (now Energy Education Program)

2017

- Celebrates Flint's 80th Anniversary
- Increases kWh rate to 10.55 cents per kWh
- Begins Distribution Automation pilot project
- Two linemen travel to Bolivia to bring electricity to the developing country
- Hurricane Irma knocks out 36,535 meters (out of 85,026). Power is restored to all in 99.5 working hours.

2018

- Recognized as a 5-Star Co-op by NRECA
- Receives a 100 on safety accreditation
- Debuts the antique truck at the Georgia Strawberry Festival

2019

- Builds an osprey platform to encourage an osprey habitat in south Houston County
- Introduces the electric vehicle rate
- Awards our five-millionth dollar through Operation Round Up
- Begin the Rural Murals program
- Begins the Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead program

2020

- Holds first-ever virtual Annual Meeting due to COVID-19
- Record-breaking year for Energy Assistance program…more than $1.3M received
- Renews 10-year Fort Benning contract

2021

- Holds first-ever drive-thru/virtual Annual Meeting due to COVID-19