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Northwestern Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Inc.

P.O. Box 207
22534 State Highway
86
Cambridge Springs, PA 16403
800/472-7910
814/398-8064 FAX

 

Northwestern REC is an electric distribution cooperative serving nearly 21,000 members in five northwestern Pennsylvania counties (Crawford, Erie, Mercer, Venango, and Warren). The first permanent rural electric cooperative organized in Pennsylvania, it was incorporated April 30, 1936, set the state's first cooperative pole August 5, 1936, and began providing electric service May 19, 1937.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Kathryn J. Cooper-Winters, President & CCS Director
  • Larry Proper, Vice President
  • AnneMarie Sundean, Secretary
  • Robert Agnew, Treasurer
  • Lanny Rodgers, PREA Director
  • James R. Carpenter
  • Roger Follett  
  • David Rectenwald
  • Francis Surovick
  • Ronald Wineland

GENERAL MANAGER & CEO

       Michael D. Tirpak

STAFF

  • John Anderson, Finance Specialist
  • Michelle Garcia, Administrative Assistant
  • Mary Grill, Consumer Services/Accounting Manager
  • Kevin Hindman, Operations & Engineering Manager
  • Linda King, Business Development Manager
  • Ken Lindberg, Human Resource Manager
  • Mary Mulligan-Haines, CCC, Communications/Marketing Manager
  • Keith Zilhaver, Operations Superintendent

COUNTIES SERVED & SERVICES IN EACH

Crawford

14,885

Erie

4,703

Mercer

86

Venango

1,089

Warren

167

Ashtabula, Ohio

72

Total

20,999

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