Big Rivers Electric Corporation is an electric generation and transmission cooperative (G&T) headquartered in Henderson, Kentucky and owned by three member system distribution cooperatives Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation, headquartered in Paducah; Kenergy Corp., headquartered in Henderson; and Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation, headquartered in Brandenburg. Big Rivers supplies the wholesale power needs of the member cooperatives and markets surplus power to non-member utilities and power markets. The member cooperatives provide retail electric power and energy to more than 111,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in portions of 22 western Kentucky counties.

The first cooperative principle is voluntary and open membership. This was a driving factor in western Kentucky in 1936 and 1937 when neighbors and friends decided to work together to form Henderson Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation. benefits, these people voluntarily joined together to be better able to reach their dreams of electricity in their rural homes, farms and businesses. Soon, many people in western Kentucky and other parts of Kentucky and across the entire country were forming cooperative organizations to reach this same dream. Once established with an infrastructure of wires, poles, transformers, meters, and members consuming electricity, the local cooperatives were viable economic business organizations facing the prospect of significant growth in numbers of members and their increasing appetite for electricity.

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