{"id":32119,"date":"2016-12-19T18:36:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T02:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wreca.coop\/?page_id=32119"},"modified":"2023-12-08T04:50:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:50:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wreca.coop\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WRECA represents approximately 11 small mutual electric companies and rural electric cooperatives throughout Washington. Our members serve <strong>over 270,000 customers<\/strong> at approximately <strong>149,000 locations<\/strong> throughout Washington; nearly <strong>one-fourth of Washington<\/strong> when measured by surface area!<\/p>\n<p>All of our members use either the \u201ccooperative\u201d or \u201cmutual\u201d business model, which means that they serve their customers on a <strong>non-profit<\/strong> basis. The rural and small utilities we represent play a critical role in supporting the <strong>agriculture industry<\/strong> in Washington by providing electric service <strong>at cost<\/strong> to <strong>two-thirds<\/strong> of all farmland in Washington.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Local control is maintained<\/strong>; as cooperatives, the customers actually set their own rates, operating policies, and long term plans through elected representatives. This <strong>democratic process<\/strong> ensures that the customers always maintain control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WRECA represents approximately 11 small mutual electric companies and rural electric cooperatives throughout Washington. Our members serve over 270,000 customers at approximately 149,000 locations throughout Washington; nearly one-fourth of Washington when measured by surface area! All of our members use either the \u201ccooperative\u201d or \u201cmutual\u201d business model, which means that they serve their customers on [&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wreca.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wreca.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wreca.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wreca.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wreca.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wreca.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32693,"href":"https:\/\/www.wreca.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32119\/revisions\/32693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wreca.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}