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Improving Power Quality on Tideland’s Merritt Circuit
November 24, 2025 06:55Improving Power Quality on Tideland’s Merritt Circuit This spring, Tideland EMC began several construction projects to improve service reliability and increase capacity on the Merritt circuit. Unfo...
Don't lose your cool this summer
November 24, 2025 13:29Top 10 Ways to Breeze Through Air Conditioning Season Smooth out the ups and downs of seasonal energy bills by signing up for Tideland's levelized billing plan. Please, please, please si...
Outage text messaging expands to allow outage reporting via text
November 24, 2025 13:34Since July 2012, Tideland has had the ability to communicate outage details to members via text. For the first few years, members were required to opt-in to program. When Hurricane Florence formed ...
Tideland to retire $1.078 million in patronage capital
November 24, 2025 13:56During fiscal year 2020, Tideland Electric Membership Corporation will retire close to $1.078 million in capital credits. Retirements to the estates of deceased members of the electric cooperative ...
Move Over - It's the law
November 24, 2025 14:35North Carolina law requires drivers to give wide berth to emergency responders including electric utility crews. As an additional reminder, the public should also keep clear of work zones while on ...
What are degree days?
November 24, 2025 14:36Tideland closely tracks degree day data to help explain energy use patterns specific to home heating and air conditioning. Members who use the online portal can overlay the degree days with their o...
Perfect Payers Should Consider Levelized Billing
November 24, 2025 14:49If you pay your Tideland bill on time every month, then you are a great candidate for our levelized billing program. The program is especially well suited for our “pay by draft” service using your ...
What a five-year-old's burn injury can teach you about safe electricity
November 25, 2025 06:09Note: While this event did not take place on Tideland's system, there are padmount transformers almost at every turn across our nation's landscape. Safety education is power. Embrace it. And share ...
Tideland returns $1.39 million in member margins
November 25, 2025 06:15In November, Tideland Electric Membership Corporation's board of directors authorized a general retirement of $800,000 to those members and former members of the cooperative that received service i...
Duct Sealing and Proper Thermostat Settings Essential to Savings
November 25, 2025 06:47Originally published January 2025 How cold has it been so far in January? Tideland territory required more home heating in the first 15 days of the month than we did for the entire month of J...