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Article: Customer-owned electric coops rival big providers in service, rates
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- Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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- September 14, 2008
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PERRY -- Who do you call for satellite-based Internet service? Or
for inexpensive land-line telephone service? How about purchasing a
new water heater?
If you live in many rural areas of Pennsylvania, chances are your
local electric utility can handle those calls -- and even more
services.
A total of 13 electric cooperatives, nonprofit power providers
owned by their customers, is spread across the state. Western
Pennsylvania is touched by three coops, including Central Electric
Cooperative Inc., based in Perry, Clarion County, across the
Allegheny River from Parker, Armstrong County, which bills itself as
America's smallest city, with a population of about 800.
Other cooperatives with area ...