GCEA’s Strategic Plan

GCEA’s Strategic Plan

GCEA’s Board of Directors recently developed a brand-new strategic plan to provide clarity and focus as the organization continues to provide safe, reliable energy with a strong cooperative tradition and a vision for the future.

The foundational pillars to GCEA’s strategy and operations endure through all planning cycles. These pillars are essential to our cooperative’s mission to serve our members by providing safe, reliable energy with a strong cooperative tradition and a vision for the future:

Enduring Priorities

Safety

GCEA is a leader among electric cooperatives in safety management. Safety is our top priority. We will continue to train and hold ourselves accountable to achieve best in class safety results. Our efforts to have our workers return home without injury and for our members to enjoy safe delivery of electric power will continue and continuously improve.

Reliability

Delivery of reliable power is essential to our members and community. We commit resources to minimize outages and restore power quickly in every situation. Our priority is that GCEA members will experience an overall average reliability rate for energy delivery at 99.97% or greater each year. We will also regularly assess the level of reliability realized by members at the end of the line throughout the service area to identify isolated issues.

Business Resilience

Our priority is to manage our member-owned cooperative as a prudent steward of financial and environmental resources. We practice sound financial management in all aspects of service delivery to ensure financial strength and viability of GCEA as an organization. We establish processes for the oversight and management of material business risks and establish strategic objectives and organizational budgets to maintain business resilience at all times.

Strategic Priorities

To fulfill our cooperative’s mission, your GCEA Board of Directors has established the following strategic priorities for the five-year period of 2024 through 2028. We pledge to focus on