Jackson Electric Membership Corporation
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| Type | Cooperative |
|---|---|
| Industry | Electric Utility |
| Founded | 1938 |
| Headquarters | Jefferson, Georgia, USA |
Key people | Ernest A. "Chip" Jakins, President & CEO |
| Products | Electricity |
Number of employees | 453 |
| Website | http://www.jacksonemc.com |
Jackson Electric Membership Corporation (abbreviated as Jackson EMC or JEMC) is one of 39 not for profit membership-owned electric cooperatives located in the U.S. state of Georgia with service in the North-East metropolitan Atlanta area.[1] Power is supplied by Constellation Energy and Oglethorpe Power Corporation which supplies generation capacity to most all EMCs in Georgia with the exception of a few supplied by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
History
Jackson EMC was first chartered in 1938 to serve electricity to rural areas of north-east Georgia where investor-owned and municipal utilities did not serve. Jackson EMC was organized as a result of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Rural Electrification Administration (REA) as part of the New Deal programs. President Roosevelt saw the need for rural electrification when traveling through depression-era Georgia on trips to the Little White House in Warm Springs. Cost of membership in the cooperative was set at US$5.00 in 1938 and has not changed to the present day.
Service Area
Electric service is provided to parts of 10 counties: Jackson, Gwinnett, Hall, Clarke, Madison, Barrow, Banks, Lumpkin, Oglethorpe, Franklin
References
- ↑ Jackson EMC profile on Answers.com, 2010, retrieved 2010-06-16