October is National Electric Cooperative Month, with this year's theme being "Built For This Moment".
Savannah based United Electric Cooperative debuted this month a YouTube feature titled "Beyond The Lines".
Hosted by CEO Jim Bagley, he spent the second episode answering questions related to the topic "What Keeps Him Up At Night".
Click the LISTEN button to hear some of Jim Bagley's comments from the United Electric Cooperative YouTube podcast "What Keeps Him Up At Night".
Bagley says he is most concerned about the balance of electrical and broadband service never going out and the economic constraints of running an efficient organization.
Bagley says one challenge that United Electric faces that the 7,800 members of the cooperative may not realize, is the national debt that drives up interest rates and the federal government borrowing more money.
Another challenge is adapting to changes in the consumption of broadband, where 20 years ago it was almost all from nighttime Netflix viewers and now it's the consumption by gamers.
Bagley says the first issue he thinks about is the safety of United's employees, followed by what has the cooperative done for the good of its members in northwest Missouri and southwest Iowa.
