Pedernales Electric Cooperative

Pedernales Electric Cooperative

PEC building in Junction, Texas
Abbreviation	PEC
Formation	1938
Founded at	Texas
Type	Rural electric cooperative
Legal status	Non-profit
Purpose	Provide rural electricity in Texas
Headquarters	Johnson City, Texas
Location	Edwards Plateau, West-central Texas
Region	US-TX
Membership	410,000+
CEO	Julie Caruthers Parsley
Affiliations	NRECA
Website	www.pec.coop

Pedernales Electric Cooperative is a not-for-profit rural electric distribution, utility cooperative headquartered in Johnson City, Texas, US, set up in 1938.

The cooperative, the nation's largest distribution electric cooperative, is owned by more than 300,000 cooperative members in Central Texas and serves an area of 8,100 square miles (21,000 km²).^[1] A 2.25-MW / 4.5-MWh (2-hour) grid battery was installed in Johnson City in 2020.^[2]

Julie Caruthers Parsley joined Pedernales Electric Cooperative as chief executive officer in 2017. She had been a partner at the law firm Parsley Coffin Renner. She is a former Commissioner of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and focused her law practice on energy-related legal and consulting services in Texas and the Southwest. She was also Solicitor General of Texas, is board certified in civil appellate law and was an adjunct professor of law teaching appellate practice and procedure at the University of Texas School of Law.^[3]

As a cooperative, PEC is owned and governed by its members, who are democratically elected to serve on the cooperative's board of directors. In 2016, the cooperative adopted a single-member district voting methodology in which members vote every three years for their district's director seat.^[4]

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