


Sawnee EMC operates the Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation, which donates to schools and charities in its service area. Sawnee EMC's board of directors is composed of nine elected members: Name In 1974, Sawnee EMC was one of the dozens of Georgia-based EMCs that founded Oglethorpe Power, and Sawnee was similarly a founding member of the renewables-focused Green Power EMC in 2001. Forsyth County EMC changed its name to Sawnee EMC in August 1950, taking its name from nearby Sawnee Mountain. Michael Goodroe is the president and CEO of Sawnee EMC.Īfter the Rural Electrification Administration was created in 1935, the Forsyth County Electric Membership Corporation was incorporated on July 16, 1938, and the co-op began providing electricity to about 750 homes via 163 miles of power lines on June 22, 1939. It is a member of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and Touchstone Energy. As of 2022, Sawnee EMC is the third-largest electric co-op in Georgia and the eighth-largest in the United States, operating 11,982 miles of power lines in seven counties: Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, and Lumpkin.

If you choose to do business with this business, please let the business know that you contacted BBB for a BBB Business Profile.Īs a matter of policy, BBB does not endorse any product, service or business.Sawnee EMC ( SEMC founded as Forsyth County EMC) is an electrical generation and transmission cooperative founded in July 1938 and based in Cumming, Georgia. BBB Business Profiles are subject to change at any time. When considering complaint information, please take into account the company's size and volume of transactions, and understand that the nature of complaints and a firm's responses to them are often more important than the number of complaints.īBB Business Profiles generally cover a three-year reporting period. View Eddy Yarbroughs colleagues in Sawnee EMC Employee Directory. However, BBB does not verify the accuracy of information provided by third parties, and does not guarantee the accuracy of any information in Business Profiles. BBB asks third parties who publish complaints, reviews and/or responses on this website to affirm that the information provided is accurate. ↩īBB Business Profiles may not be reproduced for sales or promotional purposes.īBB Business Profiles are provided solely to assist you in exercising your own best judgment. *Some consumers may elect to not publish the details of their complaints, some complaints may not meet BBB's standards for publication, or BBB may display a portion of complaints when a high volume is received for a particular business. If Sawnee would have advised otherwise the I would have handled this in a different way, but they said I could just pay online and it would be deleted. Sawnee receiving payment implies If the original creditor, such as a credit card issuer or mortgage lender, is handling the debt collection, then your payments **** go to the original creditor.

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CBA had no involvement in the transaction yet refuses to remove the incorrect information from my credit file and they do not have a license to collect a debt from south carolina consumers. In any event, Sawnee the original creditor was paid after discussions with Sawnee. Sawnee did indicate that they had records of phone conversations with Credit Buerau Associates, however had no recollection of calls with Sawnee to resolve the matter. The 3rd party collection agency **** contact the individual concerning the collection of a South Carolina residence (the debt was generated in Georgia). Sawnee EMC does not have rights and/or access to the phone calls of the 3rd party collection agency and did not indicate they have the records. Either yours or the debt collector is fine. Please forward your documentation, also do you have a license to colledt a debt of south carolina residence, please forward as well. In fact it is very interesting that they have no records of numerous calls directly to Sawnee, however can claim they have all the call records from the debt collector. And Sawnee certainly has no understating that if the original creditor is paid the third party reporting company cannot report as it is not their debt. The response did not answer the question why a monopoly utility company would have any incentive to not remove any false information on a credit file. (The consumer indicated he/she DID NOT accept the response from the business.) ****** stated the credit reporting event should be removed since he paid the balance to $0.00. ****** and explained the time line of events which caused the account account to go delinquent, be sent to the collection agency and the steps the collection agency took to settle the debt prior to the credit reporting process.
