January 2016

Ryan Hardee / 25 Years

Ryan Hardee, Underground Maintenance Crew Leader in the Electric Department, recently celebrated 25 years of service with Greenville Utilities. His crew "does it all," he said. "We do underground and overhead maintenance and troubleshooting throughout GUC's system...

For the fourth time in our 110 year history, we achieved an important milestone — one million consecutive man hours without a lost workday due to injury. It took all 451 of us nearly 15 months to achieve this accomplishment.

The first time we reached that mark was in September of 2010. We...

Pitt County is chock full of unique businesses and industries of all shapes and sizes. In fact, GUC's commercial account list takes the cake with diversity from boat builders and pharmaceuticals to metal extractors and hammock makers. One such company, Practicon, offers unique, high-end dental...

Chief Analytics Officer Todd Rouse recently retired after 28 years of service at Greenville Utilities, with 25 of those years in the Electric Department as the Substation and Controls Engineer.

As a lifelong resident of Pitt County, Todd said he has seen a lot of economic changes and...

The beginning of a new year gives us a chance to reflect on what we've been able to accomplish over the past year and what lies ahead.  This year marks my 31st year in the utility industry.  I've been fortunate to work with great people throughout the years and will put our team at GUC...

The GUC Board of Commissioners held its regular monthly meetings on December 17, 2015 and January 21, 2016. Here are the highlights of those meetings:

December:

Southside Pump Station Capital Budget Amendment. GUC's largest wastewater pumping station...

More than 11 million gallons of wastewater is treated each day in Greenville. And no matter what, our operators at the Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), along with Environmental Compliance Coordinator JoEllen Gay and her lab staff, report to work.

"The lab has to run wastewater samples...

Join us in congratulating Mark Windham, Load Management/Systems Dispatcher Supervisor, for being selected as the Pitt County Rural/Volunteer Fireman of the Year.

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Pictured is the new electronic bill that our E-bill customers are now receiving via email. This makeover came when GUC recently contracted with a  new billing vendor. The...

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Customer Service Supervisor Lynda Best recently retired after 20 years of service with GUC. Lynda joined GUC in 1996, and served as one of our original six Call Center Representatives when the Call Center was first established in 1997. Before stepping into her final role, Lynda also served as...