{"id":36314,"date":"2019-06-05T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/?p=36314"},"modified":"2019-06-05T13:13:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:13:35","slug":"the-rural-electrification-story-presented-at-havana-shade-tobacco-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/the-rural-electrification-story-presented-at-havana-shade-tobacco-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rural Electrification Story Presented at Havana Shade Tobacco Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Havana, FL \u2013 Seminole Electric Cooperative (Seminole) and its Member Talquin Electric Cooperative (Talquin), presented the rural electric cooperative story to visitors of the Smithsonian traveling exhibit, \u201cCrossroads: Change in Rural America\u201d at the Havana Shade Tobacco Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Seminole and Talquin, sponsored an exhibit displaying the history of electric cooperatives. The exhibit begins with the Rural Electrification Act (REA) in 1936 and proceeds to modern-day initiatives such as rooftop solar and electric vehicle charging stations.<\/p>\n<p>Guest speakers at the event included Carrie Durden, Talquin Board President and District 4 Trustee, Tim Waddell, Director of Water Services at Talquin, and Ryan Hart, Director of Communications and Energy Policy at Seminole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always enjoy having an opportunity to share the cooperative story,\u201d said Ryan Hart with Seminole. \u201cJust like Talquin is a not-for-profit electric cooperative, Seminole is not-for-profit and governed by the nine Members it serves. Creating this exhibit for the community was a great honor and we look forward to continuing our partnership with the museum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exhibit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exhibit-4-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exhibit-4-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exhibit-4.jpg 1521w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit, www.seminole-electric.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Based in Tampa, Florida, Seminole is one of the largest generation and transmission cooperatives in the country. Seminole\u2019s purpose is to provide essential wholesale services to our Members through a balanced, diversified portfolio of safe, affordable, and reliable energy resources to its nine, not-for-profit, distribution electric cooperatives. Seminole and its Members collectively serve 1.7 million individuals and businesses in 42 Florida counties.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Seminole Electric is an equal opportunity provider and employer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Havana, FL \u2013 Seminole Electric Cooperative (Seminole) and its Member Talquin Electric Cooperative (Talquin), presented the rural electric cooperative story to visitors of the Smithsonian traveling exhibit, \u201cCrossroads: Change in Rural America\u201d at the Havana Shade Tobacco Museum. Seminole and Talquin, sponsored an exhibit displaying the history of electric cooperatives. The exhibit begins with the [&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seminole-electric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}