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Piedmont Electric Membership Corp.

Address: Post Office Drawer 1179
Hillsborough, NC 27278

Contact: Rachel Hawkins

Phone: 919-732-2123

Email: Rachel.Hawkins@pemc.org

Website: www.pemc.coop

Piedmont Electric Membership (PEMC) is an electric utility cooperative which  celebrates its 75 year in the year 2012.  We were organized by a group of farmers who wanted electricity to their houses and farms.  Through the Rural Electrification Act, the farmers were able to organize and form a cooperative,  founded and known locally  as REA.    That cooperative (PEMC)  now delivers electricity to  30,000 + members in Orange, Alamance, Caswell, Person, Durham, and Granville Counties and employs a total of 110 employees at three locations – Hillsborough, Caswell County and Roxboro –  and operates under a Board of Directors comprised of 10 members.