We're Celebrating Our 75th Anniversary!

The year of Jackson Purchase Energy’s incorporation was 1937, the time of the Great Flood, when the Ohio River and its major Kentucky tributaries wreaked devastation and inundated Paducah.  Estimated damage:  a quarter of a billion dollars.

The floodwaters subsided in February and in June Jackson Purchase Rural Electric was incorporated.

As of March 8, 1940, Jackson Purchase REA had 322 miles of line with 132 more under construction or proposed and membership of about 1,200.

By January 2012, JPEC had 2,918 miles of line and about 25,000 customers billed.

From 1937 to the present, the managers of Jackson Purchase Energy have been:

We are very proud to celebrate 75 years as a cooperative.  It is a tribute to the many men and women who contributed to our conception and development and to those who continue the operation of providing reliable and cost-effective electric service to the rural residents of western Kentucky.