SMECO
Danny Dyer represents Prince George’s County on SMECO’s Board of Directors. Dyer has a long career in state and local government. He was the chief aide to the chairman of the Prince George’s County Council and the county executive. He also served as executive assistant to the Maryland Secretary of State and retired from the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation.
He has served on many boards and commissions, including the Prince George’s County Housing Authority, United Citizens Against Poverty, the Citizens Advisory Committee for U.S. Route 301, and the Accokeek Development Review District Commission.
Dyer attended Prince George’s Community College and the University of Maryland. His love of sports has kept him involved in athletics his entire life, beginning with high school sports at Gwynn Park High School, where he was captain of the basketball and baseball teams, to fast pitch softball as league MVP, to tennis, and now golf. He served in the Maryland National Guard for six years.
Dyer has been a Board member since 1981, and he served as SMECO Board Chairman from 2003 until 2008. He currently serves on the Capital Projects Committee and the Public Relations Committee. Dyer holds both the Credentialed Cooperative Director designation and the Board Leadership Certificate from the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. He was elected to the NRECA Board of Directors as the Maryland representative in 2010.
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SMECO
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative was founded in 1937. Through the Rural Electrification Administration, the co-op received a loan of $165,000 to construct 175 miles of line to serve 600 customer-members. SMECO operated a generating plant at Popes Creek, Maryland, from 1938 to 1953. SMECO has had five general managers: 1938, Forrest Coakley; 1974, Walter H. Smith; 1989, I. Wayne Swann; 2003, Austin J. Slater, Jr.; and 2020, Sonja Cox. As of January 2020, SMECO served 165,000 customers and is one of the largest electric co-ops in the country. SMECO serves all of Charles and St. Mary's counties, the southern portion of Prince George's County, and all but the northeast portion of Calvert County.