Responsibilities

The Technical Services department was established at BARC in 1995 to deal with the increasing use of technology in the electric industry.  Prior to that BARC had implemented Load Management and SCADA systems to support the growth of the coop, plan for the future and help our members with the cost of electricity.  Load Management is a system that can reduce load on BARC's system that is reflected on our electrical suppliers system and that equates to dollars back into the pockets of our members.  Supervisory Control and Data Aquisition (SCADA) is a system that brings information from the field to the office to be used for engineering, future work plans and substation equipment control.

Since 1995 Technical Services responsibilities have been to utilize technologies that insure that our members needs can be met in the most efficient and cost effective ways.  In 2002 BARC had fully deployed an Automated Meter Reading (AMR) system that gave us more efficient methods of billing, engineering  and outage detection.

The Technical Services department has a variety of responsibilities that include commercial and residential metering, telecommunications, substation equipment, line equipment, meter readings for billing, meter testing, voltage issues, high bill issues, system sectionalizing, system reliability, SCADA, load management and AMR.

Technology is the future and BARC is committed to finding ways to use technology to better serve our member/owners.